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Addressing the Litany of Errors
Contributed by Reason
April 11, 2005, 7:42 pm

Fight Aging!

Have you ever had one of those discussions wherein, after you have carefully made your points, the other side responds in such a way as to demonstrate that they were not even listening? Welcome to the world of advocacy for longevity and real anti-aging research, where you can hear the same tired, erroneous, debunked objections today as you could two decades ago. Witness a recent article on Aubrey de Grey's work that starts out well but abruptly falls off the precipice: The first and most obvious drawback to the indefinite postponement of death is the spectre of catastrophic overpopulation. De Grey has an answer. He suggests that in the future people should be given a choice - either live forever young yourself, or have children. How simple and convenient. And how likely do you think people are to accept that? What, in fact, would be the point of living interminably without children? It sounds like a charter for the supremely selfish. The achievement of endless life doesn't seem to me the pinnacle of human progress De Grey believes, but merely its end. De Grey suggests that people who expect to live for centuries would take better care of the world....

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