• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    If you’d start this game, it’s hard to end it. Immortality, swarms of clones created just for labor, identity steal, and worse of all – people would grow negligent and the series would lose any stakes.

    I think that at some point everyone agreed that the cycle of life is a core of what makes us humanoids and pushes us to strive for self-improvement.

    It also prevents societal degradation, because immortality goes hand in hand with tyranny and lack of meaningful natural change.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      and pushes us to strive for self-improvement.

      That is why whenever you see old people having to wait in line or dealing with retail workers they are so understanding and polite. Which is also reflected in their voting, you know how they always want to raise taxes to pay for welfare programs they do not benefit from, peace despite not having anything at stake, and a more tolerant understanding society. Also their TV choices. I just think Fox News (average viewer age in 60s) is so gentle and naive.