This line of response is, I believe, the correct one for related issues such as assisted suicide, and for longevity so long as the research is privately funded. Insofar as it is, I think that putting up barriers to progress in longevity is downright evil.
This being said....
Just about all non-patentable (e.g. drug) research is heavily funded by the public and by large quasi-public charities and foundations, and much longevity research falls into this category. So the hard question needs to be asked: is longevity a need worth diverting money from more traditional areas of medical research? I'm not sure that it is.
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This line of response is, I believe, the correct one for related issues such as assisted suicide, and for longevity so long as the research is privately funded. Insofar as it is, I think that putting up barriers to progress in longevity is downright evil. This being said.... Just about all non-patentable (e.g. drug) research is heavily funded by the public and by large quasi-public charities and foundations, and much longevity research falls into this category. So the hard question needs to be asked: is longevity a need worth diverting money from more traditional areas of medical research? I'm not sure that it is.
Also http://www.charitynavigator.org/
That's the lamest tsunami video yet.
So I take a lossily compressed .aac file I paid for, decompress it, and recompress to a lossy .mp3. No thanks.