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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:15AM (#28153050)
This sounds like a desperate attempt to cope with death. We can find better ways to encourage change than literally dying.

If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so.

Death is not the solution to our problems, just like throwing your computer in the trash isn't a solution to a crashing program.

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by 8note on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:21AM (#28153571)
Death is the only working solution we've got.

Once you've solved the other problems, you can work on death

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:52PM (#28160014)
My example

> If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so.

highlights that it's baseless to put off solving death or even using it as a solution.

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