Is it unethical to seek to live longer

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Is it unethical to seek to live longer?

• Bioengineering the Human Body is Bad!
• It is revolting, disgusting, dreadful
• It is dehumanizing, depersonalizing
• It is vain and arrogant
• It is too costly

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Is it unethical to seek to live longer?

• Says Who?
• Mr. Yuks on the right Kass, Fukuyama, Callahan,
  Krauthammer, Kristol, Cohen
• Just nos on the left Rifkin, McKibben,
  Hubbard, Newman

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Is it unethical to seek to live longer?

• It is a false wish-- Better Not Longer
• It has a morally suspect history of hype,
  hucksterism and false hope exploiting people
• Monkey gland injections, yogurt diets, Hormone
  replacement
• Stem cells, frozen heads
• Those who know best, the elderly, dont want it

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Is it unethical to seek to live longer?

• Better Arguments
• Violates the Natural Order
• Robs us of finitude and Imperfection and thus
  joy, pleasure, striving
• Artificial not Natural

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Is it unethical to seek to live longer?

• Better Arguments

Costs too much research, social burden It is
pure vanity It will rob life of meaning It is
not safe