It's so strange to me how comfortable we are with telling the old that they're a burden who should choose death or have it chosen for them — For The Good of Society. People let these things fall out of their mouths with no thought at all, like accidental sometime-death cultists
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I think the worst I've ever heard was something like "well, we would never have gotten gay marriage if the old religious folks hadn't died off!" I think I've even said stuff like this. Follow the reasoning: the important thing is that the people who disagree with you are dead.pic.twitter.com/XKXWj48mfi
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Death is a horrifying thing. I don't think you should choose it for yourself. I especially don't think you should spread memes that encourage people to think of themselves, including their future selves, as burdens on society who are unworthy of life.
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The pictured quote doesn’t make any sense. The Amazonians and refugees could also have chosen not to leave their homelands. It was death or leaving, and they could have chosen death. No good person would deny them help just because they had the option of death and rejected it.
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(Unless they left for less than life-or-death reasons, but in that case wouldn’t they be less deserving than the cryonicists if there’s any difference?)
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