Poll: Immortality

[Blobpie]

Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

That would be awesome
If when you die, or before you die, you could have that happen
As a robot you still felt emotions and could think, but didn't feel pain, nor hunger, nor become sick, etc...
Yeah, I'd have that done

And then you get them to make you smaller, but no less lethal robot minions >

 

[Hollyday]

I can't think of anything worse. And to be the only one who was immortal would just be torture. No thank you!

And in the longer term, 1,000,000 years from now you probably won't even recognize the human race and you will be a freak.

made me think of the 'prehistorc ice-man from 1995' episode of South Park!

 

[Tzor]

I'm not sure, come back in 500 years and ask me again

 

[Cry Wolf]

So, lets say that science creates a pill, that if ingested, will stop you from aging another day. You cannot die from old age! How wonderful. It costs a lot though, and most regular working-class people are unable to pay for them.
But how do you think society would change if anyone with enough money could live forever? Obviously some sort of populace control program would have to be put into action to keep the world from overflowing with 20-something year olds. And is immortality something we actually would want?

Someone was watching In Time. So yes, as long as I can convince the beautiful heiress to a fortune to come rob banks with me.

 

[Shuguard]

I'd take the immortality to see what happens in the future and what i can accomplish. Eventually the world becomes a sandbox and there is oh so much you can do in a sandbox before getting bored. Who knows maybe i'd build up(something) and start over again multiple times. Least there will still be more games to play.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Death is an ultimately natural part of life, and I personally find the thought of it soothing. Everything ends and knowing that you won't live forever gives all the more value for a human life. There's also a whole load of horrible things that would come with immortality, from seeing everyone you ever loved die, to finding motivation to do a single thing after a long time you really should've been dead already.

 

[Sixcess]

A world in which immortality can be bought would be an awful place. The super rich are influential enough as it is without them living forever.

However, I'd take immortality for myself, if only because I have a great fear of death, or more precisely of what may or may not come next.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Mmm maybe since I can still died but not from old age. Still I would guess most people would want the pill before they reach into their 30's or above. On the other hand I don't want to spend alot of years to paid it off, sure it will get paid off eventually (since you're immortal and all) but the process will still be annoying.
I would think not being able to died natually will be annoying as I don't think I'm willing to take my own life unless I paid someone to killed me but even then it won't be a suprise (unless I hinted that I wanted to died and someone orchestrate my demise).

 

[=y]

Seeing as Baccano! was the last anime I watched...

It kind of leads to a lot of unhappiness. I'd opt to not have immortality even though someone with noble intentions could change humanity for the better using it. Too many people would go nuts with power or be trapped in the mindset of an earlier age with different morals. That and us mortals, once we detect an immortal, will want to know the SCIENCE! behind it all.

Too much bother for everyone involved.

 

[chadachada123]

Yes, absolutely.

True immortality would suck hard, but willful immortality is something everyone should have. We should all be able to decide when we want to die. However, population control would be important, but I never viewed childrearing as an innate right to begin with.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Bad idea. We're already afraid of death, and offering to indefinitely extend that is cowardice. Face your fears, and live a good life, regardless of what comes after, for good is still good.

 

[Random Fella]

Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

That would be awesome
If when you die, or before you die, you could have that happen
As a robot you still felt emotions and could think, but didn't feel pain, nor hunger, nor become sick, etc...
Yeah, I'd have that done

And then you get them to make you smaller, but no less lethal robot minions >

I like the way you think

 

[Something Amyss]

So, lets say that science creates a pill, that if ingested, will stop you from aging another day. You cannot die from old age! How wonderful. It costs a lot though, and most regular working-class people are unable to pay for them.
But how do you think society would change if anyone with enough money could live forever? Obviously some sort of populace control program would have to be put into action to keep the world from overflowing with 20-something year olds. And is immortality something we actually would want?

So you can still die by other means? Because I imagine that this would lead to a booming euthanasia market.

I always refer to this Cracked article whenever some brings this up.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html

And I'm just too tired at the moment to write anything substantial, I need some sleep.

One definitely doesn't apply (nobody can no), one might not apply (getting trapped), and one is just dumb (Time speeding up, or rather your perception of it).

Though the other two aren't bad points. Though if you can choose to end your life, still, evolution and your brain getting bogged down are also kind of pointless.

 

[Something Amyss]

Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

That would be awesome
If when you die, or before you die, you could have that happen
As a robot you still felt emotions and could think, but didn't feel pain, nor hunger, nor become sick, etc...
Yeah, I'd have that done

Would you be an uncanny valley robot or one of those weird cutesy ones like WALL-E?

 

[Random Fella]

Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

That would be awesome
If when you die, or before you die, you could have that happen
As a robot you still felt emotions and could think, but didn't feel pain, nor hunger, nor become sick, etc...
Yeah, I'd have that done

Would you be an uncanny valley robot or one of those weird cutesy ones like WALL-E?

Definitely a serious Robot
Do what I want because nothing can hurt me

 

[guidance]

Only for me bitches. I want to see humanity continue. I want to see what happens. I am afraid of death, but only because I am afraid I will miss everything. I would love to also contribute to humanities technological evolution, and the longer I live the more chance I have to do that.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

If people were immortal they'd have to ban babies and infertilise the entire human race to stop overpopulation but some people would still manage to have them anyway so there would need to be an agency that goes round killing babies and those people would destroy their souls and become totally evil and start destroying everything.

so no.

 

[Olas]

It seems that since you can always just kill yourself, granting immortality simply gives people the option to live eternally. People can choose for themselves how long they want to live.

Not giving people immortality essentially takes this freedom away and decides how long they will live for them. Does that sound fair to you?

Also, being immortal would mean you'd be young until you die. You wouldn't spend the last 25 years of your life as an old person with a dramatically reduced quality of life.

 

[Hazzard]

I think that if immortality became an option for everyone, the rule would come that you can't have children. Or not rule, it makes you sterile, or an enuch.
That way, the super rich would bankrupt themselves, leaving us mortals to create new rich people, and because they won't have been around as long, they won't be as rich as the super rich.

 

[EclipseoftheDarkSun]

I'd be in favour of non-ageing type immortality, so long as its cheap and readily available - if you're mentally and physically constantly renewed, I don't see the downside, particularly since you could still off yourself. Sure, if you just continued to age mentally there could be problems.

I'm not in favour of rich-people-only immortality, unless it's just the initial stages, before economies of scale made it available to everyone.

If we've developed sufficiently efficient/sophisticated robots, that could make immortality quite desirable - you could stop exploiting each other as much and educate each other instead, working together towards bigger goals for humanity.