Immortality?!
- Thread starter Katrina Johns
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Imagine what it would be like to trade against people with millennia of experience. Imagine the learningcurve. 30-40 year old humans will be like lost puppies in the forest.
One thing that will have to change once immortality beacomes widespread and accepted is accountability for actions. Of course we have to manage resources differently when we will be around to take the consequences. Who cares nowadays when people live for a tiny speck of time. Perspective will change to more timeless values.
Progress will be much faster since the great minds wont die to such a great extent.
I read somewhere that if people were to stay eternally young the average lifeexpectancy would be about 2500 years. Abit of a disappointment really. Some of the highlander charachters are older than that. Methos 5000 years, Kurgan 3000 for ex.
Also people will take less risks beacuse of the potential value of neverending life. Less risky behaviour will then have much greater potential for long term survival. With the risktakers having short lives humanitys genepool will change to favour a calmer temperament.
One thing that will have to change once immortality beacomes widespread and accepted is accountability for actions. Of course we have to manage resources differently when we will be around to take the consequences. Who cares nowadays when people live for a tiny speck of time. Perspective will change to more timeless values.
Progress will be much faster since the great minds wont die to such a great extent.
I read somewhere that if people were to stay eternally young the average lifeexpectancy would be about 2500 years. Abit of a disappointment really. Some of the highlander charachters are older than that. Methos 5000 years, Kurgan 3000 for ex.
Also people will take less risks beacuse of the potential value of neverending life. Less risky behaviour will then have much greater potential for long term survival. With the risktakers having short lives humanitys genepool will change to favour a calmer temperament.
katrina, if you were a thinker, you wouldn't be an atheist and you would have figured out an intelligent response to my post. Stop looking to atheist college proffessors to tell you what you are supposed to believe. What my post meant ( and thinkers figured this out for themselves ) is find something to believe in, or be an agnostic ( which is accepting that you don't know the ultimate truth ).
i'm not religous, but at the same time, i don't claim to know the "ultimate truth." what's sad is, many religious people DO believe their religion is the ultimate truth. they're not even close..
it's obvious
Anyone who can think is a thinker.