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PoindexterOglethorpe

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8. A few years ago at one of my science fiction cons

Sun Apr 26, 2020, 01:22 PM

Apr 2020

there was a panel about immortality.

No one seemed to think there was much of a down side. I finally brought up overpopulation, and the panel looked at me as if I'd started speaking Martian.

Another huge issue is that the older generation alive whenever immortality might come about, would NEVER get out of the way. It's bad enough that whoever is President in 2024 will be either almost or over 80. With immortality, next thing you know we'll have a President well over 100 or 500 and who doesn't understand that things have changed in the centuries since he or she was 35.

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