Acceptance of death is a rationalization... who's the author?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Zell

From an evolutionary standpoint, there are few reasons to live as long as we do now. That's why there's such a thing as aging, our genes stop giving a crap about us when we're supposed to have produced a bunch of kids. Everyone who's not against old people taking medicines is against the natural order of things. I don't see why helping people live until they are 90 is a noble thing while helping people live until they are 200 or 300 years would somehow deprive life of its meaning or whatever Leon Kass-inspired nonsense we're supposed to believe today. People have a remarkable ability to perceive the situation they are currently in as the most acceptable one.

Well, arguments regarding eating ice cream, and preference for which flavours is acceptable, or acceptable to display in public, or teach to kids, is a oft-recurring topic in GenChat threads. And it correlates with threadlocks at about 0.4, which is pretty high. Just that you think eating ice cream is okay does not make it a universal truth. (Personal note: I'm proponent of absolute ice cream freedom, as long as it does no harm to others, i.e. no throwing etc.)