immortality all right with forced sterilization? (please read the tongue in cheek!! )Wasif Ahmed wrote:If everyone becomes immortal, won't the earth become too overcrowded in just a couple of years?dhwanis wrote:I feel it is good....as long as everyone around you is immortal as well....if that is not the case...then I feel it is bad as what is the point of living a life seeing everyone you love leave the planet..
Is immortality a good or a bad thing?
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Re: Is immortality a good or a bad thing?
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There are disadvantages; loneliness, watching loved ones pass away, love and much more. Hence the reason I would still want to die. Maybe I am a little naive in my thinking but I often think about how much I want to do and how it would take me several lifetimes to do it. (I would want to be chosen for immortality before I am too old though )
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Immortality would take away part of what makes us human. The only real immortal would be god-like.MarisaRose wrote:I think this is an interesting topic! I do not think immortality is a good thing, I think it takes away a lot of what makes us human. The ability to live forever would make one jaded and feel superior to others. Personally, I would not want to be immortal!
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Exactly! Thanks for sharing your views with us. ?psychopathycathy wrote:I would say bad. Maybe I'm just cynical, but the whole idea of being human is that you have a limited time to decide who you want to be and how you want to change the world. If you get rid of that sense of urgency, the point of living life to the fullest and WANTING to learn more becomes meaningless.
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I agree with this. I can't even imagine how long natural resources would be around for if no one passed away. Unless, we don't re-populate the Earth, but how's that fun? Children are one of the best aspects of life.Wasif Ahmed wrote:If everyone becomes immortal, won't the earth become too overcrowded in just a couple of years?dhwanis wrote:I feel it is good....as long as everyone around you is immortal as well....if that is not the case...then I feel it is bad as what is the point of living a life seeing everyone you love leave the planet..
So maybe it is a bad thing...
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Bad. I want to live then let to peace, not have to keep reliving the same life over generations. You wouldn't appreciate people as much if you were never to lose them.
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This is a very good point! But don't you think that for one that is immortal, their personalities would evolve over the years they live. In our human lives, a person may enjoy solitude and observation and therefore choose to be immortal. But, as they go through thousands of years, the may come to crave human interaction and connection. That's why I don't think personality would make an impact on the benefit or disadvantage of immortality. Someone may choose immortality now thinking it is amazing, but I think everyone would come to regret it as their lives go on and on and on without any family or purpose.The Researcher wrote:It totally depends on the kind of person one is. Suppose a person is very emphatic and a healer and does not mind living eternally and also in a kind of solitude which comes when one has seen eons while other just running through years that it is a good thing as the person can learn on many human life cycles and can incorporate the knowledge ob betterment of future races of homosapiens. This also holds true for true saints who are detached from the world and learn from observation and exploration. But for someone who is in love with life for its variety, the love that comes from strong attachments and need stability in form of relations it might not be good.
I think immortality, at the end of the day, is bad because we wouldn't be able to appreciate our lives as they are, it would just be an endless nothing. And eventually, you would not want to form meaningful connections for fear of losing them (like Magnus Bane from the mortal instruments).
As for the option of everyone being immortal as people have stated previously, aside from the obvious overpopulation problems, there wouldn't be any new innovation or development. I think a core part of what makes us human, and what drives us to continuously create, innovate, and live our lives is the fact that we have a limited amount of time and want to make as large an impact as possible within that limited time frame. By removing the time frame, innovation might still occur, but it would be much much slower.