Deathist

a deathist is a person or persons who are opposed to using medical science to defeat the process of aging. deathists tend to fall into 4 sub groups 1. ethical deathist, 2. eco deathist, 3. philisophical deathist, 4. future of life deathists.
=== 1. ethical deathist this type of deathist argues that long lived populations would cause problems (eg stagnation and breakdown of morals) and would lead to a stagnated society which new ideas and societal progress would become impossible. rebuttal: well there is some truth to this, there are ways to solve or get around this rather than subjecting people to suffering and disease, also this assumes that there would be no new generations in a post aging world which is untrue as birth rates would still be needed to compensate for the 50k other deaths that happen every day other than old age. 2. eco deathist: this deathist group are people who argue that living "too long" would be bad for the planet, and would only make climate change worse. rebuttal: we are working on solving these issues and working to lower polution by switching to renewable energy, nuclear fusion, greener agriculture, deselanation etc. all of this would increase the carrying capacity of the planet meaning we can have more people on the planet with less impact. 3. philisophical deathist: this deathist argues that old age is needed because it is part of the "art of life" and many other weird and bizzare reasons. rebuttal: this is the most strange and weakest argument to not develop medical therapies to combat aging, there is no philisophical excuse to subject people to dementia, frailty and death. 4. future of life deathists: these are people who argue that old age is needed to secure space for future generations and that for some reason those who havent been born yet have more rights than those who already exist. rebuttal: birth rates decline as lives get longer as evidenced in statistics going back to the 1960s, also it is important to remember that even when old age is out of the way, there are still 50,000 other deaths that would happen worldwide everyday. todays daily birth rate is 350,000, so dropping the daily birth rate to 50,000 a day would create a balance, thus delaying the 350,000 births a day to a week instead."Scott Emptage May 2 at 10:29 AM  ·" facebook.com</blockquote> ===
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