The link above talks briefly about Ray Kurzweil and his ideas/inventions. The video mentions that he is working on finding a way to allow humans to live forever, and finding a way to bring the dead back to life. Humans are not suppose to live forever, and if we were God would make it so. However, that is not his will. Putting aside religion there is another reason why the idea of allowing humans to live forever is wrong. Resources. Where would we put all these humans if no one died but people still produced children? The world is becoming over-populated as it is now and ten years from now if no one died and new people were born there would be no where for people to live with privacy. We would lack the resources to sustain that many people as well. Food, power, water, air ect..would all be a huge issue. Philosophers like Ellul years ago already worried about our well-being in the future the way things are now. He feared we'd destroy ourselves through nuclear war. Others worry we will destroy earth and its resources. Bringing back the dead would only add to this population and resource crisis as well.
3 comments:
I agree that people can't live forever. The over population means there would be no more room for agriculture, which is where people get food, clothing, and many other things humans need to survive. Its not only the natural resources, its also essentials that humans must produce to live.
I also agree that people can't and shouldn't live forever. Just like you said our world has a huge population as it is. The earth would not be able to handle the huge amount of people there would be if we were to bring back the dead. When you pass away there is a much better place to go and be and we should all have the chance to experience it and stay there.
I also agree that people should not live forever. It would cause over population. Also people could use this technology for evil purposes bringing people back to life to create giant army's of soldiers. The most important thing is that we were meant to die to hopefully goto heaven. Exploring this technology would be wreckless.
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