Why do you say "fighting back"? Life and death are a package deal: Can't have one without the other. Additionally and as I hardly need to point out to you, nature comes in natural cycles and living and dying are one of them.
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Congratulations on stating the obvious.
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The desire to extend life does not necessitate an obliviousness to the notion of death. In my view, one can fight back against death for the moment and simultaneously recognize the ultimate futility of such an action.
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Now, to what extent the desire to live and to extend life is freely chosen desire vs. to what extent the desire is an imposition by our evolutionary genes, that's a separate debate. Some puppets carry on the puppet show inspite of the awareness that they did not choose any of it.
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*However, it is my (controversial) contention that the puppet who recognizes that he is a puppet and still willingly brings forth other puppets into the show is bereft of any sense of morality. By giving birth you have condemned the slave to a lifetime of bondage.
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Very Schopenhauerian (and also Buddhist). Inclined to agree.
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Reducing childhood mortality when it is high extends life expectancy much more than efforts aiming at making people live longer. Bringing childhood mortality down from 30% to what we have today, close to 0, extends life expectancy by about 25 years -which is the bulk of the gains
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Not from your scientism. Once again shows you are a BS vendor with POOR statistical knowledge. Again, what is the matter with you?
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Another Sisyphean task of rolling back yet another internet-spread 'fact'' that the noble souls in Modern Science, Medicine and Pharmacology have added decades to all our lives.
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The Pharma lobby (and you) still using the arguments of life expectancy to demonstrate their importance and the need for spending a lot of money to keep healthy.
#BSvendors
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Well done!
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I absolutely love you Steven Pinker! Humanity has also grown because of hearts and minds like yours.
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No it hasn't, see above thread, emprical fact (you do know what emprical is?). This guy is a fraud. Don't be a sucker.
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Thought you were joking at first, but yes these are graphs forged from steel & glowing tape

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No its not, its him manipulating figures like a pharma company. See above thread.
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