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[–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This question can be rephrased like this: how can shooting myself in the head be bad for me in a world where shooting myself in the head is impossible to be bad for me? We could cure death and people will still say shooting yourself in the head is the deadliest thing ever.

So therefore, trying to prevent people shooting themselves in the head is not about health.

If nothing can kill you (even shooting yourself), then can anything (including shooting yourself) be dangerous?

I present this puzzle to others, they do the same thing.

Think of it this way, if we had death curing nanobots, does this mean you can survive a nuclear explosion? Will you become immortal?

The nanobots the book was talking about are nanobots that stop the tendency for the body to decay as we age. They are not meant to make us immortal.

Think of them like very advanced prosthetics.

Having the ability for prosthetic arms and legs does not mean that arms and legs (both natural and prosthetics) is impossible to be chopped off. Having heart pacers does not mean that poor diet and low exercise is impossible to cause heart disease.

People with poor health need more medical intervention and earlier than people with good health. The existence of inventions does not change risk factors.

We have a real life example. Oxygen is a very reactive molecule, it is unstable in large amounts and corrodes everything else, yet we need it to survive. Something that is bad for other things is required by us. The reverse is also true. CO2 is harmful for us but good for plants.

Hope that actually clears up your thought process and helps you stop believing in none sense.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I'm not believing in nonsense. When they cure death and we're in our 200s, I'll be out smoking cigars, enjoying hot sex orgies, and playing Counter Strike for real while you'll be at home worrying about your health and freaking out that second hand smoke will kill you at the age of 915,278 instead of the average of 995,562.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I was being purposely absurd about shooting people in the face to prove a point.

    But since you would actually play counterstrike IRL if these nanobots were invented, I'd gladly take the opposing side to your team.

    When (not if) I win, I'll emphatically take over those sex parties, but leave the cigars and smoke (not really my thing).

    You really think technology will make you immortal. I bet my mortal life that you didn't take a STEM degree. You really are a delusional joke.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    You really think technology will make you immortal. I bet my mortal life that you didn’t take a STEM degree. You really are a delusional joke.

    It's a hypothetical and it's making you hopping mad, jumping all around it. It's a moral issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    You know what? Your right, when someone's mad it is a moral issue. When your face gets shot, and you mad about it, it is not a question of fact but a moral question.

    Shooting a gun is one thing, the trajectory of the bullet is another thing.

    Smoking is not just you. Because of the public effects of smoking, I will be affected and I should be asked to consent. If you see my consent or lack thereof to you smoking as a moral issue than I see your non consent to your face being shot as a moral issue to be corrected.

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