SciFi can be interesting, but the pursuit of immortality or even extensive longevity always seemed to me like a very very bad idea to me. I like living, I don’t like living enough to want to do it forever.
Myself, I always saw the point of the pursuit of immortality to not actually be immortality, but letting you choose when you’re truly done with the world rather than dying of some arbitrary cause out of your control.
Some might decide they’re done at 70 years, some at 700. The societal changes needed to make it work would be immense, but wresting control of your death date from luck and nature into your own hands seems a worthy enough goal to me.
One would hope by the time a conversation on human immortality becomes relevant, society will have found a way to limit the damage such a person could do.
Wishful thinking I suppose.
I’m a bit scared to imagine a 700 year old politician
I imagine it’d look a lot like the groups that have been pushing the same issues for a long time - i.e American evangelicals trying to work God into the constitution for the past two centuries.
I think a big thing is getting a society that is equitable and regenerative. Not dying would be kinda great for a long time in a star trek type of universe but in a drill abay drill while we kil off the fertility of the world and some men are worth a million times the average man and some have nothing. That world is hard to want to live in.
Myself, I always saw the point of the pursuit of immortality to not actually be immortality, but letting you choose when you’re truly done with the world rather than dying of some arbitrary cause out of your control.
Some might decide they’re done at 70 years, some at 700. The societal changes needed to make it work would be immense, but wresting control of your death date from luck and nature into your own hands seems a worthy enough goal to me.
Our 70 year old politicians are pretty detached from their constituents and society. I’m a bit scared to imagine a 700 year old politician
On the other hand, if they had to face living to see the consequences of their actions they would have some motive to not shit everything up.
One would hope by the time a conversation on human immortality becomes relevant, society will have found a way to limit the damage such a person could do.
Wishful thinking I suppose.
I imagine it’d look a lot like the groups that have been pushing the same issues for a long time - i.e American evangelicals trying to work God into the constitution for the past two centuries.
I think a big thing is getting a society that is equitable and regenerative. Not dying would be kinda great for a long time in a star trek type of universe but in a drill abay drill while we kil off the fertility of the world and some men are worth a million times the average man and some have nothing. That world is hard to want to live in.