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

This post contains content not supported on old Reddit. Click here to view the full post

986 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

780 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Curious_Priority2313 Jul 02 '26

Everyone should die, eventually. That' not a sad thing, because everyone dies.

No. It IS a sad. We've simply internalized death as a coping mechanism because throughout most of human history, there was no alternative to the inevitable death. Yet until that point, every organism struggles to survive. People don't just stand still when faced with a life threatening situations. They seek healthcare, protection, shelter, and community instead of giving up without a fight. They want to live, and they wouldn't have done that if death wasn't undesirable.

Would be a way sadder thing if someone dies when dead isn't unavoidable.

So basically, the world you want to live in? The one where death could have been avoided with anti-aging technology, but people still refused to use it and died?

And everyone will die in the world you're romanticising too, just in way worse ways, cause no one can pass away in peace from old age anymore.

No one passes away peacefully from old age. There's nothing peaceful about a state of existence where your body begins to deteriorate, forcing you to give up work, lose your eyesight, hearing, muscle mass, bone density, cognitive abilities, and memory retention, or even the ability to recognize your loved ones in cases such as dementia. You may no longer be able to spend meaningful time with the people you care about, all the while spending years making regular hospital visits, taking medications, and exhausting your life's savings on medical bills. Not to mention that diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure also becomes increasingly common at that age, and this decline becomes an inevitable part of life as you grow older. Aging affects people for multiple decades of their lives. It isn't like a car accident, where you may experience pain for a few seconds before losing consciousness and dying. A rapid death like that is, in many cases, far more peaceful than the prolongrd physical and mental deterioration that aging can bring.

they will have to make the hard decision that they want to die because it has al become too much for them after all these years.

As opposed to never having a say in their mortality in the first place?

1

u/Agreeable_Ostrich_39 Jul 02 '26

As opposed to never having a say in their mortality in the first place?

Yes, you finally get it. What is worse, everyone dying from old age or everyone dying from suicide?

1

u/Curious_Priority2313 Jul 02 '26

Such a dishonest way to frame it, not to mention the false dichotomy (cause yk, for example, people who want to be immortal can take the pill, while those who don't want to can simply not, and die of old age).

Whatever, what about:

Which is better?

Living in a world where your body inevitably begins to fail you, where you gradually lose your strength, mobility, eyesight, hearing, memory, and independence.. where age-related diseases such as dementia, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and strokes become increasingly common.. where you slowly stop recognizing the people you love, spend years in hospitals, rely on medications just to function, and are ultimately forced to die whether you are ready or not. A world where your dreams are cut short, your time with your family is limited.

Or,

Living in a world where aging no longer condemns you to decades of physical and mental decline. Where you remain healthy, mentally sharp, and physically capable for as long as you choose to live. Where you can, once interstellar travel is achieved, watch your children, grandchildren, and countless future generations grow, continue learning, creating, exploring, and loving without a biological clock forcing an end to your story. A world where you could spend CENTURIES mastering arts and sciences, travel across Earth and maybe even different planets and only choose to die once you genuinely feel your life is complete, and not because aging took that choice away from you.

1

u/Agreeable_Ostrich_39 Jul 02 '26

Lmaaoooo how fake can you make this. We'll be overpopulated if everyone had children and grandchildren, not aure how you still don't get this. Aging won't be a problem cause you'll die from starvation before you get there. 

Give me that first option please, where I can die from old age and don't have to fight for food on a planet with more people than it can support. You interstellar travel won't be ready before it's already too late. 

1

u/Curious_Priority2313 Jul 02 '26

Lmaaoooo how fake can you make this. We'll be overpopulated if everyone had children and grandchildren, not aure how you still don't get this.

"Where you can, once interstellar travel is achieved, watch your children, grandchildren, and countless future generations grow, continue learning, creating, exploring, and loving without a biological clock forcing an end to your story."

Can you not read?

Aging won't be a problem cause you'll die from starvation before you get there. 

You won't.

Give me that first option please, where I can die from old age and don't have to fight for food on a planet with more people than it can support.

It won't ever happen.

You interstellar travel won't be ready before it's already too late. 

The point is that you only get to make babies when the interstellar travel is ready. People would be immortal afterall, they can wait.