Re:How Ancient People Saw Themselves
by getpokedagain on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:33AM
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Hmm. I think I get it and its certainly a goal you could get behind. I take it you basically oppose Ivan Illich's premise that modern medicine will never out smart death and fails to help people adapt to the truth of their mortality?
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I don't think that death is a certainty. It is today, but we are working on it. We are not supernatural. CGPGrey's thoughts on this mirror a lot of my own.
I grant that not all care given to aged is a kindness, but not fighting aging is not virtuous.