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Re: Birth and death should be voluntary too

Posted by Pharmakon on 2023-October-14 21:15:26, Saturday
In reply to Birth and death should be voluntary too (nt) posted by Edmund on 2023-October-14 20:41:39, Saturday

Meant sarcastically, I assume. But yes, if we were to find that within a generation death had begun, on average, to come two years sooner, and a drug were available to delay it, then that drug should be made widely available to those who want it.

Nor is this an imaginary scenario. Many people now live two or more years longer than they otherwise would have due to medications that have only within a generation become widely available. I myself now take a number of medications unknown at the time I was born without which I probably would already be dead. I am not absolutely certain this is a net benefit to me or the world. But I choose to take them, and I certainly would object vigorously if someone were to purport to deny me that option based on their own understanding of what is natural or best.

And if we could ask those not yet born if they wish to be born, and they could answer us, I think their wishes also could be and should be respected. Who can assert with confidence that it is better to be born into the sad world we inhabit than not?

hugzu ;-p


Pharmakon

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