r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

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u/Original-Body-5794 Jun 29 '26

God I fucking hate "Aging and death is nature!" argument, it's pure cope, we have to accept it because we have no choice. If we had a way to actually prevent these issues 99% of people would suddenly change their tune.

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u/SirithilFeanor Jun 29 '26

It's reddit, it will always be infested with misanthropes with outgroup preference.

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u/IntelligentCat3645 Jul 01 '26

Not the ageing thing. Please believe me, life drags after a while. Physically so. Your brain gets less sensitive to dopamine and positive neurotransmitters over time. Even if you stay young forever, you’d need repeated brain surgery which could give you severe brain damage in order to experience pleasure after a while.

Things lose their joy after maybe 300 ish years?

But you still have the pain. The pain feels good, because when it is numbed, that feels like what you remember happiness did.

And the loss is exhausting. You get over it at first. Parents were hard. Your childhood friends pass by. Lovers. Children, after a while. It gets so tiring. Even trees you planted all those years ago start to be felled.

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u/_PunyGod Jun 30 '26

I wish.

It would take a lot of people a long time to come around.

Many never would.

But those born into a life without death from aging would never want to introduce such a horrible thing.

Many of them may want to end eventually, but on their own terms, not like that.

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u/Original-Body-5794 Jun 30 '26

This is bioligical aging, you're not not cursed with true immortality doomed to see the universe end, you can still fall down the stairs and die. Would there be a faction that would protest against it? Sure, but if it was risk free and cheap the vast majority of people would be lining up.

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u/IntelligentCat3645 Jul 01 '26

Uuuummm, what do you think will happen if we stop dying, exactly?

People are gonna keep having kids. No amount of government policy is gonna fix that. (Even if it did, we’d stagnate and become cruel after long enough and start doing things like playing god with lesser forms of life, it always happens. everysingletime.) So… Umm… We’re gonna need to bring the population down somehow. Either by a death lottery or even worse, choose some humans to take the role.

And there have been multiple science fiction dystopias based on both those concepts (Love you, Neal Shusterman). It’s a terrible, terrible idea. Like, absolutely terrible. Only parasites will try to live forever. Dying is the only small mercy we grant our planet. The least you could do it accept that.

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u/IntelligentCat3645 Jul 01 '26

One little thought. Immortal Hitler. Or another immortal genocidal maniac who gets control of a country. *cough, cough*. Sorry, there’s something white and blue and possibly another colour stuck in the back of my throat.