Immortality worse than death.

Introduction: Thanks to DOB for this debate. I'm going to start off with a brief discussion of what is entailed by immortality. It presumably means that I cannot die as a result of bodily harm, but it seems strange to suggest that it follows that my body is totally immutable. Nothing about immortality necessarily entails that I cannot get my hair cut, for instance. I am going to take immortality to assume that by some fiat I cannot die or sustain equivalent physical harm. For instance, it is not the case that if my head it chopped off I will remain alive; rather, events will somehow always play out so that this does not occur. Perhaps I am impervious to this attack or perhaps Fate dictates that I never end up in such situations. More importantly, the essential requirement for immortality is that my mind/consciousness will never cease. Bodily death is not possible if it would bring about the end of my mind, but if my mind can survive bodily death due to some miracle of technology than I am free to be rid of it. Uploading my brain to a computer would not cause me to die because from my own subjective point of view I would be quite alive. The mind is clearly more important than the body. I take this liberal approach because I am of course the one who gets to be immortal and there is no universal agreement on the exact consequences of immortality, which is of course an imaginary state. I will also note that any instance in which immortality would be contradictory or impossible (the end of the universe) is out of the discussion because we have already agreed for the purpose of the debate that immortality must be possible in order for it to be better or worse than death. CA1: Evolution This is an interesting point, but it is one that I had anticipated. I am not particularly worried about the problem of other humans out-evolving me because my body can simply be upgraded through technology. Getting an upgrade doesn't violate the requirement that I be immortal any more than eating a sandwich, my physical body need not be immutable. [1] All of Pro's objections can be answered as simply as that. The technology to upgrade human beings is completely feasible and well within the reach of modern medicine. The supermen of Pro's future will be engineered by science long before they are bred by evolution. In any case, there is no reason to believe that human evolution will be disadvantageous to me. Dysgenic pressure could result in a species of humans far inferior to me. [2] CA2: Secrecy I am not terribly worried about the risk of other people messing with me because they cannot do any serious physical harm to me. It will eventually become apparent to people that I am not a god and for the most part they will leave me alone. I will just hire security to deal with the crazies. I feel much the same way about government authorities. They cannot do me serious harm and they will eventually realize that trying to extract the elixir of eternal life from me is futile. Pro suggests I may be locked up for a while, but I am confident that in a war of attrition the odds are in my favor. I will gnaw my way out of prison eventually. Humans are a pretty flimsy threat to me anyway considering the fact that I cannot be killed. If I have a gun I will be very hard to stop because shooting me, even with, say, tank rounds, will be useless. The fact that people will think I am so valuable will probably play in to my favor. I will make billions selling stool samples. C1: Immortality is Awesome Immortality is such a good deal on its face that I need very little affirmative. I will continue to upgrade my body and enhance my knowledge over time until I become nearly all-powerful. I will have an eternity to do whatever I want and by the time any serious problems come up I will have had millennia to prepare for them. Also, Pro's entire argument is plagiarized from Cracked.com [3] Sources: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://www.cracked.com...