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Re:Is Aging Inevitable? by CTDOCodebases on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:44AM (#27955758)
Why doesn’t anyone see death as a feature not a bug?

Our environment is always changing so is it wise to throw away the opportunity to adapt?

Re:Is Aging Inevitable? by xvector on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:56AM (#27955842)
We can adapt without dying, thank you very much. In fact, traditional death-based evolution is probably hindering our adaptation more than it helps, since it takes a few hundred thousand years to do what we can now accomplish in just a few decades.
Re:Is Aging Inevitable? by CobrastanJorji on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:27AM (#27956322)
We've already thrown out evolution, which isn't a huge deal because our environment is changing far too quickly for it to be helpful.

But even if none of that were the case, arguments that death is a positive and should be kept around have a huge burden to meet. When your argument is "we should murder everyone who will ever exist because X," then the value X had better be pretty fucking huge.

Re:Is Aging Inevitable? by edrxty on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:19AM (#27956269)
Not to get political but have you seen the makeup of the US Congress? The world is ruled by octogenarians that never seem to die.
Re:Is Aging Inevitable? by xvector on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:06AM (#27956536)
Not really an argument against curing aging, but rather an argument for age limits or age-based representation.