Sunday, March 20, 2011
Possible Immortality and the Implications
Scientist have been researching growing replacement organs for people, recently they've been able to replace a mans liver. This research could save many lives and could even eventually lead to almost complete immortality, and it might not be too far away, scientists believe that in the next 20 years they'll be able to create a replacement heart. At first this sounds like a wonderful thing, and it could very well be. However, how would immortality affect laws, populations, crime rates, and people's ethics? Should only certain people get immortality? Who would decide and how? And what would people be willing to do if they didn't fear dying?
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I think immortality is a terrible idea. All these years since man found technology, man has been messing up nature and pushing the boundaries to see how far we can go. But this is just too far. Nature decides how long you can live, and if we push the boundaries too far, we will be in a world beyond repair. IMmortality is a horrible idea, and scientists could be helping with better things, like finding a cure for cancer, or finding out when the sun will blow up and how we can avoid that, instead of wasting all their time on a thing that will just mess up our world even more.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Theres also the fact that doctors cant refuse to treat even a criminal. Imagine what someone would do if they could keep doing awful things, keep getting injured and shot and stabbed, and still never ever die.
ReplyDeleteBut if doctors were to refuse to treat criminals then that would lead to immortality being something powerful people could give and take away. What happens if kings and politicians control not only are laws and our countries, but also our lives? End in order to make room for the people who they deemed deserving of immortality, wouldn't they have to kill the ones that weren't
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