[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline: meme map

Ned Late nedlt at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 8 18:15:28 UTC 2005


Dont torment yourself. Worry can kill you :-]



> I've also been worrying about, with
> increasing life spans, the impact of extremely
> long-lived people who nevertheless are dead set
> against the very technology that literally saves
> their
> lives, except for their own personal use.  Not
> because they're greedy and want everyone else to
> die,
> even if that's the conclusion many others will come
> to, but simply because they think the tech is
> immoral
> and accept their use of it as a personal moral
> failing
> they'll deal with "someday", which in practice turns
> out to be only after their lives are no longer being
> extended.
> 
> And then there's resistance to developing the tech
> in
> our own lifetimes.  (Yeah, I want to live forever
> too.
> But I wouldn't mind most other people getting the
> same
> benefit, and I certainly don't classify the desire
> to
> live - even if one has already had a long and full
> life - as immoral.)
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