Would you want to be immortal? why or why not?
You would be able to stay a certain age forever, but obviously will never die.
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[Old Memory]
Yup. I want to experience everything. I don't want to just be a small dot in the book of existence. I also don't know what comes after death, so I'd take my chances.
Immortal for me. It's one thing I want more than anything.
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ArmusWasTheFirstTroll
Eventually you would experience everything there is to experience and you would keep on living. Ultimately, you would be doomed to an eternity of boredom.
The certainty of death allows us to appreciate the little we are allowed to experience.
My answer is "no."
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Arm0se
Waaaaat? New stuff is being made every day! By the time you go around the world everything you've seen will be different.
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ArmusWasTheFirstTroll
Just to be clear I interpret immortality as not being able to die by whatever means.
Yes. But eventually, whether it be 1,000 years from now or ten 10 billion, you will run out of things to learn. Yet, you will still go on to exist. When all the energy in the universe is absorbed in to space and life is no longer possible, you will still exist.
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[Old Memory]
If I could leave the planet and explore the universe endlessly, then yes.
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bananapie
I'm been tired of life since 10+ years back, so I'd rather not live forever.
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Derbabble
Nope, no and hell the fuck no, and here's why:
With the climate of social discrimination caused by in/outgroup thinking fueled by comfirmation bias, they'd be doomed forever to some of the worst life experiences possible, forever. But let's just look at the survival needs aspect of their eternity.
Not only would they eventually come to a point where people in their social atmosphere notice them not aging and stop treating them as a child but, let's say after fifty documented years of them not aging, no one would be likely to adopt them as their child and support their survival needs till the adoptee dies.
The immortal also would never reach legal working age in the North Americas and would have to seek sustainable resources by commiting illegal activities or have to leave the country to find a place where children can work legally. It's then highly possible that any adult who would "allow" children to work for them would not be decent enough to treat those children as valued employees let alone like children who have to work for a living.
This is a grossly undesirable lifestyle. And that is just making sure their survival can continue on a day by day basis, leaving out the social, emotional, physiological, spiritual and existential aspects of their life, and how that would all change for the immortal.
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400 years would be enough for me. I would miss new developments and progress of civilization. But, to become old is to withdrawal from life.
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Avant-Garde
Sure, so long as my body could be healthy and avoid the usual effects associated with aging.
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iEatZombies_
Immortal, no. However, I wouldn't mind sticking around for a couple of hundred years or so, if people I cared about could, too.. and I'd like to be 24 during that time. Also, if my family could choose their age as well, that'd be cool.
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noid