Re: longevity in 20 years

From: David James Polewka (joseywales_at_outlaw.nospam)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:39:44 GMT

Joe Strout <joe@strout.net> wrote:

> imbibe@mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> > > We need to stop making flu vaccines and stop killing
>> > > infected birds, so more people can reach a timely and
>> > > merciful end. We have so many things that were luxuries
>> > > or nonexistent just 100 or 200 years ago; we should be
>> > > satisfied with moderate, rather than extreme longevity.
>> >
>> >Yes, and what's with putting splints and casts on broken >bones? I
>> say, let 'em dangle. If you don't like the shape >it eventually
>> settles into, you're not being sufficiently >creative. And whose idea
>> was it to treat infections? If
>> >you lose a foot, well that just means you can cut your
>> >sock budget in half.
>>
>> You mean we have only two choices: ALL medical care,
>> or NO medical care?
>
>Hey, you were the one advocating that we stop vaccinating people so that
>they'll die earlier. I was just trying to be supportive.

So you're going to stop pretending that there's no middle ground
between the extremes?

>So maybe a refined view of your position is: you're in favor of limiting
>medical treatment in such a way that it increases disease and death, but
>not disfigurement?

My position is that the solution to the population problem is
limited longevity, just as the solution to our political problems
is limited government. Passing the buck to the next generations
is not a solution!

  
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