> People living longer = fewer births assuming stable population
That's a big assumption, and one that seems rather unlikely to hold or to suddenly change.
> You'd literally be trading a teenager's first crush for an 80-year old's third marriage.
If you're going to blatantly invoke imagery like that, then how about preserving the wisdom of experience? How much more might we advance the state of the art in every field if the experts in those fields are still around, healthy, and making new discoveries?
And there are plenty of 80-year-olds still enjoying their first marriage.
Youth is a wonder largely because of aging; eliminate aging and you get the pleasures of youth when you're a hundred.
Personally, I'm satisfied with "death is bad; stopping death would be good". Simplistic yet still incredibly true.
>How much more might we advance the state of the art in every field if the experts in those fields are still around..
That will also keep bad guys around indefinitely. I think we can agree that things can be better. (I mean things like, environmental issues, corruption and foreign policies). But one cannot really hope to change the viewpoints/values/priorities of people already in power. Our only hope is the new generations, which we can hope to bring up with better values, which will eventually replace them.
Imagine if Hitler could live indefinitely or created an army of clones. Imagine every corrupt/powerful person in the world right, has the capability for doing this.
The point I am trying to make, is good cannot do good, when evil forces are in power. And the only thing that prevents evil forces in power indefinitely, is natural death. (We can all agree that things like democracy are not really doing a good job at that, right?)
That's a big assumption, and one that seems rather unlikely to hold or to suddenly change.
> You'd literally be trading a teenager's first crush for an 80-year old's third marriage.
If you're going to blatantly invoke imagery like that, then how about preserving the wisdom of experience? How much more might we advance the state of the art in every field if the experts in those fields are still around, healthy, and making new discoveries?
And there are plenty of 80-year-olds still enjoying their first marriage.
Youth is a wonder largely because of aging; eliminate aging and you get the pleasures of youth when you're a hundred.
Personally, I'm satisfied with "death is bad; stopping death would be good". Simplistic yet still incredibly true.