A Simple Question on Permanence
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A Simple Question on Permanence
This is a thought experiment.
Tomorrow morning, a vaccine is announced which is highly available and which provides effective immortality.
Anybody who wants the vaccine can have it without cost or judgement and therefore will live forever.
The vaccine halts the ageing process and removes all disease and entropy, but does not protect from external physical harm.
For the purposes of this experiment, sexual reproduction is also rendered obsolete.
Anybody who elects not to become an immortal being on this plane will die a natural death and will not be replaced.
There are however tightly controlled methods of asexual reproduction which will only ever maintain the population at a number equal to the number which initially elected to live forever.
The question is:
How would this alteration affect approaches to "permanent" methods currently used to address actions such as murder - assuming the current approach is the death penalty or life in prison; is an infinite amount of time long enough to reform every circumstance?- ajfefijsleifjsa
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Well that's along the lines of the question I'm posing. If a person who had murderered someone could live forever, would they permanently be a danger?
The other side of the coin is, if a person who had never up until now murdered someone, lived forever, would it be inevitable that they eventually murder someone?
Although that's not the question being asked.
(those are at least the two logical extremes which likely describe the outer bounds of possibility in this hypothetical scenario.)- Not_Mafia
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So murder = 100% dangerous, and not murder = 100% not dangerous? Seems flawed.
It'll be more probably be (much?) more likely, but it does not guarantee.
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Humanity as we know it would rapidly become... well, something that's not as we know it.In post 0, talah wrote:This is a thought experiment.
Tomorrow morning, a vaccine is announced which is highly available and which provides effective immortality.
Anybody who wants the vaccine can have it without cost or judgement and therefore will live forever.
The vaccine halts the ageing process and removes all disease and entropy, but does not protect from external physical harm.
So immortality is the "gift" we've been given. What's the price we pay?
How much does this vaccine affect on psychological levels?- Invisibility
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i assume for thsi hpytheticcal experiment to work there is no negative effectIn post 7, PvtUrist wrote:
Humanity as we know it would rapidly become... well, something that's not as we know it.In post 0, talah wrote:This is a thought experiment.
Tomorrow morning, a vaccine is announced which is highly available and which provides effective immortality.
Anybody who wants the vaccine can have it without cost or judgement and therefore will live forever.
The vaccine halts the ageing process and removes all disease and entropy, but does not protect from external physical harm.
So immortality is the "gift" we've been given. What's the price we pay?
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This makes it slightly more difficult to work with. It takes compromises to be making thoughts on an idea that by laws of nature isn't going to happen.In post 9, Invisibility wrote:i assume for thsi hpytheticcal experiment to work there is no negative effect
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The current method is fucked. It may or may not become unfucked.
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A person proven guilty of murder isn't enough context to prove whether they'd be a "danger", as the word "danger" itself is even more vague.
If people got immortal I'm sure they'll have no excuse to be able to do case-by-case and with context, as well as determine what exactly "danger" means to them, and what it means to others.- u r a person 2
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I think I would be even more against the death penalty if everyone was immortal
If you execute a wrongly convicted man with 40 years left on his life, that's a lesser injustice than if he had a million years left on his life
and we would need new, better methods of rehabilitation, but even that doesn't mean everyone could be rehabilitated
some people would need locking up for a very long time.103-11 0-2- imaginality
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I'm interested in how it would affect our risk tolerances. Like, driving a car is an acceptably risky activity with a 100 year lifespan, but if you know you could live for thousands of years (and want to), would you become too cautious to risk car accidents?"holy shit this entire time i thought imaginalitys profile was a purple seahorse" - camelCasedSnivy- Oso
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Justify that statement, please.In post 13, u r a person 2 wrote:If you execute a wrongly convicted man with 40 years left on his life, that's a lesser injustice than if he had a million years left on his lifeMy Uncle always use'ta say, 'You can't get no blood from a turnip.' .... He'd say the same thing about gettin' it from a stone, too.
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By biology, men were more expendable, hence this.In post 16, u r a person 2 wrote: We prioritize rescuing children over old people "Women and children first"
Also women, but that's old fashioned chivalry (sexism)- u r a person 2
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Not trying to hijack the convoIn post 17, PvtUrist wrote:
By biology, men were more expendable, hence this.In post 16, u r a person 2 wrote: We prioritize rescuing children over old people "Women and children first"
Also women, but that's old fashioned chivalry (sexism)103-11 0-2- Oso
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There is a lot tied up in those statements beside the values of life. PvtUrist's comments on that that are one of them. There is also the long held belief that you are not a 'man' if you put yourself over the well being over women and children. Also, the fact (opinion maybe) that adults (using my own anecdotal life experiences) value a child's life over their own through empathy. "What if this were my child and I wasn't here."In post 16, u r a person 2 wrote:Does it need justifying? Life is valuable. More life is more valuable. Intuitively, is it not more of a tragedy when a child dies than when an old man dies?
We prioritize rescuing children over old people "Women and children first"
Also women, but that's old fashioned chivalry (sexism)
The view I take is this. Murder takes it all. Doesn't matter if the victim has one day or an infinite amount of days, it all gets taken away and therefore both are equally tragic.My Uncle always use'ta say, 'You can't get no blood from a turnip.' .... He'd say the same thing about gettin' it from a stone, too.
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Can you think of any other scenario where stealing a lesser amount of something creates the same sense of loss as stealing a greater amount of that same something?
If I steal half the money in your bank account, I've done less harm then if I steal all the money.
If I ruin half of your day, that's less egregious than if I were to ruin all of your day.
If I burn down half of your house, it will cost less to repair than if the whole thing is reduced to ash.
There are some instances where taking a part of something makes the entire thing worthless. For instance, if I were to remove from your possession half of your private key for your crypto that would render the entire amount useless. But even in this case, I've effectively removed all of it from your possession.103-11 0-2- Oso
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How about do no harm and not try to quantify the amount the amount of harm you are doing. I'd say that line of thinking is only valid in a situation like say, a wildland fire where they destroy [X] amount of forest or property in order to keep from having the whole thing destroyed. A case could be made for doing that on a societal level but that is something I personally don't want to explore outside (or maybe even inside) an experiment.
Consider this: Through medicine and scientific advancement we, today, find a way to vastly increase (or even not so vastly) lifespan and quality of living. Granted we have no way to deal with the eventual population pressure on earth (no way to get significant population off planet, which may or may not be possible in the future, I'm not a scientist so I have no way to know). The OP scenario would break down as I'm guessing that ALL crimes would be punished by death and the list of 'crimes' would extend to ridiculous extremes. Along with that there would be euthanasia at a certain age based completely on the thinking you put forth.
Even if life were infinite, to control population there would be a limit set in place because logically, if you were born after me and a population reduction were needed I'd get the axe before you simply because I was born first. Even with infinite life the thinking would be 'X was born before Y so even though it is infinite Y must have more left'.
[Note] I'm using the generic you. Not the u r a person 2 you.My Uncle always use'ta say, 'You can't get no blood from a turnip.' .... He'd say the same thing about gettin' it from a stone, too.
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I'm not looking to do anyone harm. It's all hypotheticals. Your forest fire point is not bad, but I think it's a lot more like grooming than damage. I cut my toenails. If I didn't, I might get a hangnail or an ingrown nail. But I would never call cutting my toenails self-harm.In post 21, Oso wrote:How about do no harm and not try to quantify the amount the amount of harm you are doing.
The rest of your post, while a fun read, is beyond what I'm interested in discussing right this second. If you want to discuss the point you originally asked me to explain, I would be happy to join you. Otherwise, I wish you luck in finding someone to discuss your ideas with.103-11 0-2- Oso
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You did see the note at the bottom right?In post 22, u r a person 2 wrote:I'm not looking to do anyone harm....My Uncle always use'ta say, 'You can't get no blood from a turnip.' .... He'd say the same thing about gettin' it from a stone, too.
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