No… not what I mean at all. Knee pain is a condition, which can and should be addressed with medical intervention. Aging is not. What I am trying (and apparently failing) to say is that using your kid as a blood bag in order to stave off the inevitable is extreme, narcissistic and, and yes, unnatural. It betrays a fear of aging and death that is borne from existing in a society which has a profoundly unhealthy relationship with aging and mortality. He could ship of Theseus it if he wanted to, replacing every part of his body with that of a younger person, but it would make no difference… he is still going to get old and die. There is an immaturity in refusing to acknowledge that eventuality, which societally we are also guilty of though to a lesser extent by locking our elderly away in nursing homes, and refusing to acknowledge death as a natural outcome of life, and an unavoidable part of being human.
We might cure aging within this century. We’ll probably cure it faster if enough people agree we should, instead of accepting aging as beautiful and inevitable.
a society which has a profoundly unhealthy relationship with aging and mortality
No… not what I mean at all. Knee pain is a condition, which can and should be addressed with medical intervention. Aging is not. What I am trying (and apparently failing) to say is that using your kid as a blood bag in order to stave off the inevitable is extreme, narcissistic and, and yes, unnatural. It betrays a fear of aging and death that is borne from existing in a society which has a profoundly unhealthy relationship with aging and mortality. He could ship of Theseus it if he wanted to, replacing every part of his body with that of a younger person, but it would make no difference… he is still going to get old and die. There is an immaturity in refusing to acknowledge that eventuality, which societally we are also guilty of though to a lesser extent by locking our elderly away in nursing homes, and refusing to acknowledge death as a natural outcome of life, and an unavoidable part of being human.
We might cure aging within this century. We’ll probably cure it faster if enough people agree we should, instead of accepting aging as beautiful and inevitable.
I do agree with this
You keep saying this, but as I have pointed out, this is hotly debated amongst scientists. So just because you believe it to be so doesn't make it so.