Anti-aging drugs would not be beneficial to society

Thank you CrazyTool for posting your argument. 1.New laws 2.Overpopulation 3.Harder job opportunities 4.Economic divide 5.Environmental factors 6.Conclusions 7.References NEW LAWS I fear for you CrazyTool that evidence is not required in this context. As you would know, the word mature means [1]: "complete in natural growth or development" and according to my definition of "anti-aging drugs" I stated that it is: "A drug that will slow down the aging process, therefore increasing our life expectancy to about 150". The site thesaurus.com says that aging and growing are synonyms [2]. If people already with a driver's license are exempt from the new law, what would happen to those who are one or two years under the age for learning how to drive? They have a right to learn how to drive when they are 16 years old and would therefore call it "unfair" if they need to wait for another decade and a half just to learn how to drive. The inconvenience it would cause for them is outrageous. OVERPOPULATION True, I made a mistake when I said that it is "impossible" to live in Antarctica, but I am doubtful that we would actually be able to "live" there. But, as you have mentioned yourself, the people who have lived on Antarctica are scientists and are therefore in Antarctica for research reasons. Antarctica is NOT their home [3]. Note that the temperatures in Antarctica have reached extremes such as -89.2 degrees Celsius [4]. Is it possible to provide a suitable insulation for such extremes? If we speculate that is it possible to actually LIVE in Antarctica and treat it as home and every other place on earth currently uninhabitable, how many more people can the earth support? The UN predicts the earth will be able to support approximately 9 billion people by 2300 [5]. It also mentioned that some optimists argue that the earth is capable of supporting 1000 billion people, but this is simply absurd. Just to make it clear to you, that means a simple family of four right now would actually become a family of 62 members within every household. You may argue that the world is growing larger every day [6]. This is true, but, the world is not growing fast enough to support our future population. The site states that earth was 40% smaller than it was 200 million years ago. The year 2300 is only just less than 3 centuries away from us. You mentioned that China's population growth rate and some of the factors such as immigration. China also has many travellers and people who may migrate to other countries when necessary. HARDER JOB OPPORTUNITIES You said that there is no limit on social networking jobs. In theory, this would be a legitimate statement. But, thinking about it logically, are you saying that there could be up to 50 billion different social networking jobs? Talking about your query about the cancer treatment, you did not mention that it would add the number of people looking for a job. Cancer treatment and the prospects of an anti-aging drug is also different. The drug (from my definition) is doubling our current life span. That means double the work time which then leads to double the number of people working. While we may speculate that only the rich will be able to afford the drug, it will still create big disadvantages for those who are working and searching for a job right now. ECONOMIC DIVIDE I understand that Africa has a high population because of its poor conditions which lead to early deaths, but again, I think it is too difficult to help out 984 million people at one time. Also talking about Africa, anti-aging drugs would not help the people in Africa if their current conditions continue; some major ones include famine, poor governments, corrupt government officials, low availability of fresh water, low level of education and AIDS [7]. How will anti-aging drugs benefit people living in Africa if they have that kind of living conditions? ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS Although the government has been switching to renewable along with research and advancements in carbon capture, pollution still affects over a billion people around the world [8] and has also poisoned millions of people and killed every year. Referring to your words on things that are biodegradable, there are also non-biodegradable wastes such as plastic which usually end up in landfill and incineration [9] which will therefore be a negative environmental factor. CONCLUSION This comes to the end of my argument and I apologise for not providing decent sources and reasons for my opinions. Thank you for advising me not take use Wikipedia and WikiAnswers as sources. I will remember this from now on. I have provided reasons for why anti-aging drugs would cause slower maturity and also some of my points on the economic divide about Africa. Also, I would like to note that if the country subsidies it, this could encourage higher crime rates as people may try to steal the drug (similarly to weed, or marijuana as it's known by its proper name) to use or sell.