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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If everyone were immortal, and no one needed to worry about resources, that would be awesome and pretending otherwise is the biggest cope.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

People have been coping for so long it's practically a genre in literature. People are convincing themselves so hard that immortality is a curse, yet literally zero people have actually experienced it.

Humanity's sourest grapes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"The only problem about being immortal is that you need to drink blood, a set of ethical problems spanning a tetralogy", so I haven't really seen/read about the exact idea you're talking about. Got any media where people actually say your kind of Immortality is bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, but I've argued with enough people IRL to know that my opinion isn't exactly common. Most people who agree with me are my fellow transhumanists.