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Post by johnny99 » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 10:43 PM UTC

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Post by atarian » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

This isn't an article about longevity, it's an attack piece on men.

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Post by realPubkey » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

If the creation of human life is so easy to do, should we waste that much resources in making some of us immortal?

Also this article is more about why men are evil wanting to do so.

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Post by _m8fo » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:21 PM UTC

Ironically, if immortality existed and was ubiquitous, it would be the very thing that would drive us to extinction due to the lack of genetic variability.

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Post by TrainedMonkey » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC

realPubkey wrote: post #3

If the creation of human life is so easy to do, should we waste that much resources in making some of us immortal? Also this article is more about why men are evil wanting to do so.

Using the same logic why should we spend that much resources on doctors? Just make more humans - some of them will be healthy.

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Post by guskel » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:23 PM UTC

atarian wrote: post #2

This isn't an article about longevity, it's an attack piece on men.

It really is extremely sexist against both men and women.

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Post by admax88q » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:25 PM UTC

_m8fo wrote: post #4

Ironically, if immortality existed and was ubiquitous, it would be the very thing that would drive us to extinction due to the lack of genetic variability.

How so?

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Post by andrewjl » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

_m8fo wrote: post #4

Ironically, if immortality existed and was ubiquitous, it would be the very thing that would drive us to extinction due to the lack of genetic variability.

How did you arrive to that conclusion?

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Post by realPubkey » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

TrainedMonkey wrote: post #5

realPubkey wrote: post #3

If the creation of human life is so easy to do, should we waste that much resources in making some of us immortal? Also this article is more about why men are evil wanting to do so.

Using the same logic why should we spend that much resources on doctors? Just make more humans - some of them will be healthy.

Hmm you are partially right. Doctors make sense because healing someone is still cheaper than creating a new human and raising+educate it. Still my logic does not fully apply here.