Re:Your real biological clock is you’re going to die (2018)
by rscho on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:38AM
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Because interstellar travel is probably much harder than extend people's lifespan to unreasonable extents. Your children will need room to thrive.
Of course, you could argue it's others who have to die. But that seems a morally difficult position.
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Re:Your real biological clock is you’re going to die (2018)
by r3trohack3r on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:47AM
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I love the positive sum framing in your response. Yes earths resources are technical finite, though I’m not sure that’s true in a meaningful sense.
Humans are already well past the natural carrying capacity of the planet for our species. But we’ve figured it out an have been (mostly) successful. I don’t see why that would change between now and when we get access to off planet resources. Especially if humans live forever - priorities are able to shift quite a bit when you can think longer term (what’s 100 years of effort to solve this problem compared to infinity?).