[Erki]

Originally Posted by Sam988

Let's think for a moment, ok? If we figure out how to live indefinitely, that obviously means that we will have figured out how to stop and eventually revert aging. That means that you won't live forever as a creepy 80 year old, but rather as a 20 year old.

What's so wrong with aging anyway? What makes a 80-year old creepy and 20-year old supreme? It's interesting too that while (some) people accuse youth of being bad, they also think of elders as somehow substandard. Young people go to nursery/childcare/school up to certain age, so they can become "useful". On the other end, old people go to retirement, maybe even live in retirement homes, when they have become "useless". In the middle, somewhere, business happens.

Originally Posted by williamhessian

but if you think about human beings as a whole, think about how much time and energy goes into teaching each kid the same damn thing. it would be a lot more logical for us to go on living and learning, instead of dying and having kids have to relearn what we've all already learned.

Why do we need to "waste" energy, teaching kids some stuff anyway? Firstly, they would learn what they need and what they want anyway, without anyone's teaching. This would then be aided even more by the absence of danger of life - they can explore whatever they want, and they would still come out of it alive. And what's that thing with kids "having to" relearn things? Wouldn't we adults then also have to relearn things? Kids have to relearn plenty in today's world too, with all the new tech miracles popping out all the time. In fact, it looks like it's more the older people who have slight trouble getting around the modern life.

Originally Posted by williamhessian

we could be making progress, instead of repeating ourselves.

I took this quote out of context, yeah, but it's a good quote I think. My question is: if we live forever as a 20-year old, where's the progress? Being a 20-year old body all the time seems more like stagnation to me.