What would happen if people stopped aging? Iv been told that the beauty of life lies in the fact that it is short and that the only reason why we appreciate the little things in life is because we get so little time to savor them. But seriously, what would happen if people stopped aging?
Children would never grow up. A whole generation remains kids for ever (which I don't think is such a bad thing. I would kill to get my childhood back any day!). Maybe after a while they would stop behaving like kids, with all those new things about life that they learn. We'll have a batch of pint-sized baby faced boring old people. And the genuinely old people would never die. Birth control will have to be taken a lot more seriously. And there is a higher chance of the whole species being wiped out by some new epidemic.
All this would go against the system. Everything has to evolve progressively. Older generations need to die off, newer generations need to be born
Well, if that is the case, then life obviously cannot be mere electrochemical energy between the non-living subatomic particles (read the previous post) that our body is comprised of
Or is it?
Then why do new people need to be born? Given ample time to live, would every person eventually turn evil? Or would everyone turn good?
They could all turn evil since there is no more a hell for them to fear. No more the risk of reincarnation as a lesser life form... as a slug, perhaps
Or they could all turn good since they might all eventually learn to coexist. But that seems highly unlikely
People are inherently selfish and irritable. Don't give me that look. They are!! Tolerance is something one learns. When a child is born, the first thing that he does is crying his ass out. He is pissed off because the light is annoying him. He has just been pushed out of his comfort zone - his mother's womb- and he hates it
Then as days pass, he gets used to the light and eventually falls in love with it and the sights it brings. Somewhere along the way he starts fearing the very darkness that he once emerged from and would never want to be put back there again. I could be saying this just because I am claustrophobic and a pitch black room gives me the feeling that the walls are closing in on me (yes, im weird that way)
The first time a child sees something attractive - a toy for instance - he reaches out for it. He wants it even if it belongs to another child. In time, the child is taught to share and care and not to want what another possesses
What I am trying to say here is that human beings aren't inherently all loving and giving. All the so-called values are instilled into us as we grow up because society requires us to be reprogrammed and reconditioned. Some of us get corrupted, while the others continue to be bad
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Yes... being the semi-cynic who said that life would be pointless if people were immortal, i do believe that life - as it is, with its ups and downs, its small joys, the little things that matter (yeah you get the drift) - would lose out on its beauty... its magic. The whole point of life is that it doesn't last forever. And the fact that we dont know when exactly it will end. Atleast speaking for myself, I know that I wouldn't treasure the things that matter if I knew I dint come with an expiry date(pun intended :D). The fact that this life is so short and unpredictable is why we hold on to things... people... relationships.
As for people being inherently good or evil... as much as I know that I am a gullible optimist who looks for the good to outweigh the bad, I know it isnt always true. Whether i choose to admit it or not is another issue. Giving humans a free reign to plunder and loot this place is just.. i dunno... wrong. Giving them that with a 'forever' tag, is just suicidal. I think we deserve to be recycled every few decades. New life needs to be born. If not to replace the population, atleast for the joy of giving birth to new life. I hate to do an Elton John, but yeah, it IS the c i r c l e of life you know!
People need to live. People need to die. The good, the bad and the ugly. And no, we wont evolve if we stay here forever. We evolve because the generation before us made enough mistakes for us to learn from.(Utopia situation, I know. but still...) I might be wrong. I'm probably just this cynical cz im having a lousy day. But i do believe that life is beautiful because it doesn't last forever. We have too little time. The clock goes tick-tock and we treasure things because we dont know when our batteries are gonna run out. We only know that one day, they definitely will.
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