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It's sad that we as a species waste our time & resources on bullshit such as wars, parasitic businesses like advertising, etc instead of focusing on solving the most important problem that affects us all across all races, religions and cultures: death.

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Not all of us view death as the worst thing that has affected this species, not sure why we should all “fight” against this. Afaik there’s no way for this planet to hold and accordingly feed hundreds of billions of people (us, our kids, our-grand-grand-grand.....-kids, none of us dying), so what will happen in case we were given the “eternal life” curse is that we will stop having kids. I for myself would always choose the world belonging to kids/younger people instead of older people.

Not on this planet no, but the universe is a huge place. Space is the obvious next frontier.

Why is that more obvious than the bottom of the ocean?

Would you rather live at the bottom of the ocean?

Because that's where all the bottom feeders are.

I agree. Far more destruction happens in life, in our callousness with each other. The way we tear down each other's minds, piss in each other's homes.

Death is as natural as birth. But sadism, addiction, domination, waste... those are not natural. They are a force from another place, one many religions have a name for.

This does seem to be the point many religions try to make. That there are things in this world worse than death, worse than suffering. There are things which strip you of your nature, and many of them may even feel pleasant, tempting, satisfying as they wrap their hands around you.

Sadism, addiction, domination, waste, these are all completely natural. Nothing that's unnatural exists. All existence is natural. What would make you believe otherwise? Just the fact that they don't align with your particular survival agenda?

Unless we can somehow reintroduce neural plasticity, conquering death will probably be a very very bad thing for the species. I'm not sure it's a good thing even if we do find a way to reintroduce it. Constantly getting new generations to replace old ones is how we adapt to changes as a species, and how we evolve in our thinking, in addition to physically.

That's a very bad way of justifying killing 150k people every single day. But anyway here's a good response to your concern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094281

Phrasing it as "killing" automatically disqualifies your argument as illogical

The comment you linked also makes many flawed assumptions. For example: infinite population growth is always good. That idea is literally cancer and deeply ignorant of ecological homeostasis

We have a long ways to go before we could adequately cope with immortality. As is, I could see us misusing and abusing it to a rather extreme level.

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