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by orangecat 5253 days ago
Wow.

My children and my children's children are my continuation. They are me.

No, they aren't.

More than that, your infinite existence is harmful

Citation needed.

Otherwise, your children will have to compete for resources not only with everyone else, but you as well.

Yes, that's why we're so much worse off today than we were when the human population was 100 million.

Death is as natural as birth.

As is a 50% childhood mortality rate, people with bad eyesight being eaten by bears, cancer and Alzheimer's.

To break that cycle is a perversion in itself and would destroy any concept of humanity that currently exists.

Wow.

Aging is terrible. Not only does it cause immense suffering and reduced quality of life, it's the major cause of the impending Medicare fiscal train wreck. Although by your "logic" we could get rid of all of that humanity-destroying medicine and solve that problem...