Argument against Immortality

An argument against Immortality
Immortality means that you have the ability to live forever.  I don't think that we can live forever because immortality leads to chaos.  Living forever would be pointless because you don't have to make decisions at all really;immortality is impossible because it causes environmental and health problems which would force the entirety of nature to die including humans.  Once you have lived forever, you will have experienced everything and see little to no change at all.  Although infrastructures and things change, they really don't because people will simply just build off of what's already there instead of creating anything new.  Living forever will only make racial tensions and economic problems worse because people can spend and borrow money forever and forever causing debt to accrue infinitely.  The reason that immortality will make racial tensions worse is because the concept of racism will still exist.  Debt still occurs because with immortality, the economic system and the stock market as well as banks will still exist.  Poverty will still exist because the class system of rich, middle class, poor, where the rich get richer, the middle class always stays the same with little to no financial drop-off unless a big economic depression hits. Also, immortality will lead to more violence because people figure "oh since we cannot die let's keep shooting each other and nuking other countries and stabbing each other".  If humankind did not die, the world around us would be destroyed do to damages from warfare, obesity rates would increase to rates of infinity.  Many illnesses would never get cured and keep permeating around other parts of the world.  Homelessness and rates of hunger would infinitely keep rising.  If we never died, citizens incarcerated per capita around the world would increase, meaning prisons would get bigger and bigger due to the unlimited amount of crime there is to commit.  Immortality would also lead to food scarcity because at that point, humankind can reproduce as many times as it pleases and the more people we need to feed the more crops we need to alter to make fit in order to feed those people. 

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  1. SnowdenJanuary 26, 2019 at 3:13 PM

    I understand where you are coming from with the base of your argument being that immortality would make the world a worse place than it already is. My main point that I would like to bring up about your argument though is I feel like you have taken a very secular view on what immortality would mean for the world. If nobody could ever die, what would be the point of money, status, infrastructure, or any other kinds of problems plaguing the world today? I feel like the greater underlying point with immortality would be that there would no point to these things anyways. The things you mention in your post about the economy, and war, and scarcity would cease to exist because there would be no point to any of it because all of us would be plagued with the curse of everlasting life.

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