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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 18, 2005 9:28:49 GMT -5
If the average age we lived for was a 1000 years they would put the retirement age up. I don't know about you but I'm not keen on working for 950 years.
Would it also mean that people who refused the treatment due to personal beliefs would not be able to get jobs? Companies wouldn't want to invest money in someone they'd only get 60 years of work out of.
Also, are humans not meant to die? Being able to live forever will cause a real stir in the relgious community who have a whole plan for death mapped out.
Though usually when something that puts population up something new appears to slow down growth. Maybe after 500 years we'd have mass insanity and kill thousands of people to stop the place getting overcrowded?
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 18, 2005 11:02:09 GMT -5
or women just stay fertile for 50 years (like now, approximately). So they wouldn't want to think about sex in their 'early hundreds' , that would stop growth, or all men just became gay all of a sudden . Well, if we would live for 1000 years ... then there will be lots of depressions and killings, because humans weren't meant to last.
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 18, 2005 11:55:09 GMT -5
Well... if absolutely no deterioration of the human body was ensured... I'd go for it. There would of course be large social difficulties if nobody died of age.. IMO they should figure out the age where people were most capable for doing work, I reckon it's somewhere in the early twenties or earlier, and then give everehboday teh treatment when they reached that age. Or if it was a gene thing from birth, just give all the embryos one. Perhaps people wouldn't like living for that long time, in which case Futurama-style suicide booths should be set up ^_^
I may be twisted.
Just think about it though... the percentage of people capable of work in the population would be like 99% or something! Imagine what kind of research facilities a such society could sustain... And since people had plenty of time, they could be educated indeterminately \o/ Imagine the progress!
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 18, 2005 11:57:34 GMT -5
ha, you think there would be progress? Everybody in my school is already whining about how much work we have to do and how much we have to study now already. Studying for a thousand years like we do now would be SUCKY!
If it would be college study ... then it'd go for it too, the bigger the one discipline you're in, the longer you'll be studying it.
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 18, 2005 13:43:35 GMT -5
People could take breaks... TO WORK!!! BWAHAHHAAHAHAAAA!! And resume studies at a later time Time would be plentiful mind you.
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 18, 2005 14:08:49 GMT -5
It would indeed be nice if the thousand years of time we have would slow down the pace of time enormously. It would be bliss to have like entire weeks of vacation (which would then be equal to a weekend now ).
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 18, 2005 14:14:04 GMT -5
But then the working week would feel like a month?
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Post by Solar on Feb 18, 2005 14:23:54 GMT -5
Only one should become 1000 year! And that's me! But I wan't to remain young then, and healthy! And attractive!
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 18, 2005 14:28:58 GMT -5
i'm not quite sure if even a thousand years is enough for the latter to 'bloom' up in you ;D
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 18, 2005 16:44:47 GMT -5
Also if everyone was immortal, would generations be unable to cope with death? Would it be such a rare occurence that people who could never ever imagine it would also die of sheer depression and shock, if a close relative had an accident of somekind?
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 18, 2005 17:04:28 GMT -5
I don't think that it will be much of a problem, lots of people today haven't seen death... Even adults. I have seen my grandmother and mother dead, but never people getting run over or something similar...
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Post by Bludgeonman on Feb 18, 2005 17:09:32 GMT -5
Bear in mind that this treatment will make you immortal, not invincible. You will still be succeptible to disease, accidents, disasters and murders. Even though your eternal youth will keep you strong and resistant to some of these things, it will not grant you full immunity.
Certainly, death would become even more of a disaster than it is now. Theoretically, people could become less willing to kill their fellow man, seeing as it's such a shock to the system, making the world a safer place. Indeed, people would be more likely to try and help each other, to prevent them from coming to an end. Uh oh...I sense a Health and Safety inspection...
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 18, 2005 17:17:02 GMT -5
It WOULD be a better place, since the sickos would gradually be exposed and locked away (or something nastier).. so only the nicest people would stay in the gene pool and reproduce
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Post by Bludgeonman on Feb 18, 2005 17:32:45 GMT -5
There's another problem. The fact that people could stay healthy for so long means that they would be capable of reproducing hundreds of times in their lifespan. Not everyone would, obviously, but some people could just carry on going for the sake of it. These mothers who love children so much that they've got to have as many as they can would be passing on the "gotta have kids" gene and god knows what else. Population growth would explode, to say the least.
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 18, 2005 17:35:56 GMT -5
And Lord T brings up an interesting point. If we are going to lock sickos away, then think of the amount of resoruces we would have to expend on people. Sentences would have to go right up to make them matter. And life sentences would cost the state a fortune.
And of course, with an exploding population the crime rate is bound to go up. meaning more needs.
Would it lead to the return of capital punishment? (Not that this applies to Texas or other places with it)
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