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- progressive, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1If we are to maximize happiness, we must allocate our resources toward the study of anti-aging medicine. 150,000 people die every single day, and this is an overwhelming burden on society, emotionally, intellectually, and economically.
In addition to losing the productivity of an experienced older person, society pays enormous amounts of money spent on end of life care. It is very sad watching people who were once so full of life slowly become decrepit. Anti-aging research, unlike disease-focused research, actually prolongs the robustness associated with youth, rather than extending the amount of time in decrepitude.
At the same time, we are having sustainability problems caused by our large global population. Sadly, the Catholic Church continuously discourages the distribution of birth control. If only they spent more time weighing the ethics of promotion of contraceptives vs overpopulation and AIDS. Maybe they are too busy covering up their thousands of cases of child molestation by priests.
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Luckily there are other methods to curtailing overpopulation without coercion. It is known that educated and relatively prosperous people tend to have fewer children, so listening to people like Jeffrey Sachs would have a great impact on increasing sustainability, in addition to birth control.
If we don't do anything to enough to reduce scarcity, such as improving efficiency, curtailing population growth, and so forth, society probably cannot sustain these health improvements without causing major socioeconomic problems. At that point, more radical methods to attain sustainability such as colonization of space would no longer be optional, but mandatory. - nerdtalker, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Another intriguing article demonstrating that the skeptics of human immortality or at least radical life extension, (within even our own lifetime), may indeed be wrong.
With nearly limitless time, it would be possible to do unimaginable things. Imagine what pursuits one could undertake if one knew that they had the time to analyze nearly all facets of a problem. - richardleis, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1In response to Ralph Waldo Emerson - "What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?" - I would say:
The pursuit of immortality brings us a new appreciation for that half an hour. I stress less about the time passing by too quickly, and appreciate more the time we do have for activity. Let me have both immortality and my half hours used well.
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