Immortality would be a desirable thing

Thanks to imabench for his acceptance. Sorry for a late and short reply. I had hoped to flesh out my arguments a bit more, but it can’t be helped. I affirm this resolution. My reasoning lies in a few of key reasons, reasons I hope to use to convince the voters to vote Pro. Framework What is presumed in this debate? 1. There is no God. 2. There is no afterlife. 3. There are no extra-terrestrials. Affirmation A Pro ballot is presumed. As humans are living creatures, a desire for life is intrinsic to their nature; therefore existence is preferable to non-existence. Further, we must take the advances of Science and knowledge into account when considering the resolution. It is not specified that the resolution must be affirmed in our species current state, rather that at some point it would be desirable for an individual to choose immortality. Thus the negative must prove universiality in his objections to immortality. Case C1: An individual has a moral obligation for continual existence. Consider the wonderment and accomplishments of the Human race. Think of our beautiful music, paintings, literature, ect. If we allow Humans to go extinct all of these wonderments perish from the Universe. Indeed, as specified in the framework there is nothing left after we go extinct, nothing at all. An individual has a moral obligation to carry on both life and the memory of his forefathers and culture. My impacts outweigh, because we’re comparing the world of the negative (a lifeless universe), to the world of the Aff (a Universe in which life exists). C2: Omnipotence. Technology is increasing at a near exponential rate; in fact it is estimated that Humanity will reach technological singularity within the 21st century (Kurzweil, 2005). What we are seeing is an unprecedented human influence on our environment, with plans being made to colonize both the Moon and Mars in the near future [1][2]. What does this show us? It shows us, that given enough time, humans can achieve anything. Indeed in a mere ~7000 years (post-Neolithic revolution) humanity has evolved from a race of nomads with little technology save a few crude weapons, to a race forming the beginnings of a mighty inter-planetary empire. Seven thousand years. This represents a fraction of a second compared to the billions and billions of years that the Universe has existed. These marvels were achieved on our own isolated planet, who’s resources are as nothing compared to the vast amounts of resources beyond our mesosphere. In fact, it’s estimated that our Galaxy alone has enough resources to sustain at least 50,000,000,000,000,000 humans (Asimov, 1950). Thus we can see that the resources available are enormous. Analysis The importance of this point is that we have seen through history that individuals will exploit their resources to fit their desires. Since space has a practically infinite magnitude of resources, and an individual exists with a practically infinite magnitude of time before the heat death of the Universe that individual therefore has the power to accomplish anything. Given enough time the individual will advance and progress until they will inevitably reach omnipotence. An Omnipotent being has the power to entertain themself forever, so therefore all negative impacts are outweighed. C3: Emotions and feelings are intrinsically good When deciding whether something is or isn’t desirable, we must consider the alternatives. The alternative to life is death- indeed there appears to be a strict dichotomy between the two. When an individual dies, they become nothing. Every cognitive event, every emotion, and every accomplishment turns into nothing but endless and eternal nothingness. This is the result of death, and it is one that is inherently undesirable as humans are beings of cognition. Thus, an individual choosing to stay alive would appeal desirably to our nature which is highly significant. The ability to detect signals from our surroundings is one held dear by humans (evidenced how we entertain ourselves though stimuli to our senses); we know that something is intrinsically good and valuable when it works to its proper function. The proper function of a human is to survive. The proper function of our sensory organs is to detect stimuli. Death destroys these inherent goods, and therefore death is undesirable. I have proven that sustaining life is something to be desired, and therefore you affirm. 1.http://en.wikipedia.org...2. http://en.wikipedia.org...