Re:Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
by dgudkov on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:26PM
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>New lives are not inherently more valuable than old lives.
From an evolutionary standpoint, they absolutely are. The whole idea of life is to produce a variety of mutations in the hopes that at least some of them will be able to overcome hostilities that their predecessors couldn't win against.
>A lot of the suffering inherent to human life is caused by moral compromises made for the sake of future generations' well-being
Well, future generations' well-being is exactly the goal of life and evolution. Any species that fail at ensuring future generations' well-being get wiped out. Whether they like it or not.
From an evolutionary standpoint, they absolutely are. The whole idea of life is to produce a variety of mutations in the hopes that at least some of them will be able to overcome hostilities that their predecessors couldn't win against.
>A lot of the suffering inherent to human life is caused by moral compromises made for the sake of future generations' well-being
Well, future generations' well-being is exactly the goal of life and evolution. Any species that fail at ensuring future generations' well-being get wiped out. Whether they like it or not.
Life is hard.