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Feel free to die then. Don't condemn everyone else.

Are you going to complain because life expectancies have already gone up by decades?

"We need more resources because we cured death" is precisely the kind of problem we ought to have.



No need to be facetious, death need not be a condemnation, and there is value in awareness of consequence.


> there is value in awareness of consequence

Awareness of consequence is one thing, and it's fine to anticipate the next set of problems and discuss how to address them. But "we shouldn't fix this problem because it'll raise new ones" is an awful statement, compared to "let's fix this problem; bring on the next ones and we'll fix those too".

> death need not be a condemnation

If you oppose other people living longer or forever, you're saying you want them dead, sooner or later. Couching it in vague or indirect language makes it no less of a condemnation.




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