Comments on: Should We Encourage Long Lives? http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/06/13/should-we-encourage-long-lives/ Good Analysis, Bad Grammar Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Levitra. http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/06/13/should-we-encourage-long-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-16527 Levitra. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:05:57 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/?p=414#comment-16527 <p><strong>Levitra better than viagra....</strong></p> <p>Levitra affects sperm count. Levitra starting from per pill. Levitra paypal. Levitra and sperm count. Levitra. How to take levitra. Discount levitra. Levitra.....</p> Levitra better than viagra….

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]]> By: Z. M. Davis http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/06/13/should-we-encourage-long-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-1111 Z. M. Davis Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:18:51 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/?p=414#comment-1111 <p>"The observation that merely putting off death is not necessarily a desirable end in and of itself"</p> <p>Why shouldn't we say instead that avoiding death is a desirable end in and of itself, but scarcity forces us to trade it off against other inherently desirable ends?</p> “The observation that merely putting off death is not necessarily a desirable end in and of itself”

Why shouldn’t we say instead that avoiding death is a desirable end in and of itself, but scarcity forces us to trade it off against other inherently desirable ends?

]]> By: michael vassar http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/06/13/should-we-encourage-long-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 michael vassar Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:58:36 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/?p=414#comment-1107 <p>"As a society we’ve already reached the conclusion that it’s better to maintain a relatively small population that can live well than to expand into a great multitude that can barely make do."</p> <p>How deliberatively? I see it as far from obvious that significant effort has gone into reflectively reaching that implicit consensus. Anyway, if it is true that we don't want many lives then its almost certainly true that we want either optimal lives or optimal moments. If the former we quite badly want life extension technology, if the latter better forms of chemical hedonism including costly chemical hedonism. I guess some sort of optimal unexperienced gestalt is remotely possible. That might recommend something like deep ecology or a caste system. Still, there's pretty clearly no room for anything much like our current social priorities to emerge out of reflective ethical thought.</p> “As a society we’ve already reached the conclusion that it’s better to maintain a relatively small population that can live well than to expand into a great multitude that can barely make do.”

How deliberatively? I see it as far from obvious that significant effort has gone into reflectively reaching that implicit consensus. Anyway, if it is true that we don’t want many lives then its almost certainly true that we want either optimal lives or optimal moments. If the former we quite badly want life extension technology, if the latter better forms of chemical hedonism including costly chemical hedonism. I guess some sort of optimal unexperienced gestalt is remotely possible. That might recommend something like deep ecology or a caste system. Still, there’s pretty clearly no room for anything much like our current social priorities to emerge out of reflective ethical thought.

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