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.
Would you want to be immortal? Why or why not?
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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.