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by yuchi 918 days ago
The adage is that if we didn’t die of age we would simply not cross the street, the odds may look slim in our short lifespan, but if you extend those to a thousand years getting hit becomes a facto of when, not if
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It might go the other way: people would become more reckless beyond a certain age because they wouldn’t want to live for centuries.
Some people would but that wouldn’t be the norm.