>>9331704One of the few things which makes life bearable is that everyone dies. It is a great equalizer which demands a certain humility from every human being. That prick you hate? He'll die someday. This is a deep comfort.
A common part of the discourse around life extension, biological immortality and so on is that it will first of all be applied to rich fucks, who can afford the treatments. Even after the abortive abominations of the early days, say they get it right, eventually. Then the uber-chads/staceys really will be, in an objective way that actually counts for something in the long term (as opposed to dick size, money and so on), superior beings.
Nor is equilibrium possible, it seems to me -except in a lifeless zero state, which is preferable because it is simpler and more just. It seems to me that as long as you have an intelligent species with such-and-such resources and ambitions (self-preservation), then biological immortality, if it can be achieved at all, is a kind of very long-term inevitability in the universe.
Imagine that prick you hate never, ever, ever dying. Quite simply, this state of affairs is intolerable to me, as it should be to you, and if it requires throwing everybody under the bus forever in order to stop anyone getting ahead in the one arena where it actually counts, then, well, that's what's necessary. There's no shame in comparing this to crabs-in-the-bucket. It simply happens that the lower crabs are in the right, which is a hateful idea to entertain for most because it's "petulant", "unattractive", etc. I consider that a certain petulance is in fact correct.
