How close are we too successfully stopping and reversing aging?

And platitudes.

So you recognize the end of aging is inevitable, and you say it's something that should wait while simultaneously not calling for its progress to halt. Tell me then, what exactly arguing against this inevitability accomplishes, other than ensuring more people are going to needlessly die? The only logical thing to do is to limit your footprint, and to help with solutions to these various problems you foresee. Trying to justify aging is just a way to feel better about your own death. After all, if you have to die, then at least it's for the greater good. It's insidious bullshit. Invoking the "greater good" to assuage your own terror, halting progress and ultimately condemning others to the same fate. If everyone with your mindset did the bare minimum in the way of contributing to solutions instead of laying down anchors, we'd be so much better off. THAT ultimately is the real problem. We always expect these issues to be solved by others, when we're just as responsible. We should all feel equally invested in the future of our species, instead of waiting for the experts to solve problems x y and z. But of course, nobody cares fuck all about the species because it's much less painful to distract yourself from your inevitable doom for the next few decades until you don't have to, and can't, worry about it.

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