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Are you serious? Have you been around old rich people? Do you find them generous? People grow more selfish with age, because they care less and less.

The only thing to gain by abolishing biological death is perpetual civil war.



I think old peoples inward focus is more a result of their physical condition than the amount of time they have been alive.

If you could put an 80 year olds mind in a 20 year old body they would probably approach life with the same optimism of other young people.

I think our behavior is more a product of our environment than some internal 'self' that is built over our lifetime. If you altered the environment from "75 years old, achy and slow body, limited future" to "25 years old, infinite future, healthy body" I would be amazed if there was not a humongous shift in behavior as well.


Plenty of the most-powerful already keep causing harm just to make number go up even more, well beyond the point at which they can conceivably personally benefit before they die. Imagine if they could conceivably personally benefit from that because they live for centuries. Why would anyone expect that to improve their behavior?




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