Posted on 12/02/2013 1:16:26 PM PST by Haiku Guy
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — THIS fall Google announced that it would venture into territory far removed from Internet search. Through a new company, Calico, it will be “tackling” the “challenge” of aging.
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Even if anti-aging research could give us radically longer lives someday, though, should we even be seeking them? Regardless of what science makes possible, or what individual people want, aging is a public issue with social consequences, and these must be thought through.
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We may properly hope that scientific advances help ensure, with ever greater reliability, that young people manage to become old people. We are not, however, obliged to help the old become indefinitely older. Indeed, our duty may be just the reverse: to let death have its day.
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Who makes decisions about Death?
It seems like you would have to have a Panel... What would we call such a thing... a Panel that makes decisions about Death?
TRANSLATION: “All you old white people, hurry up and die already!!!”
We would call it the Obamanationcare Death Panel, of course! Euphemistically: the End-of-Life counseling panel.
The problem is that, in the vast majority of cases, the individual will choose to extend his own life. No matter how many thumbsucking think pieces the New York Times prints, people will still rather live than die. So the decision to kill him will have to be made over the individual’s objections.
Who makes decisions about Death?
It seems like you would have to have a Panel... What would we call such a thing... a Panel that makes decisions about Death?
And I’m sure the Google founders will be working to preserve themselves and other liberal swine so the agenda of marxism can continue long after real conservatives are long dead and only RINO’s remain.
Actually I think the NYT has a point: anyone and any paper that is 162 years old needs to die.
When the government is finally picking up the tab for everybody’s health care, we can expect to see more and more of this “Duty to Die” nonsense.
Is there anybody below the age of 60 who still gets a dead-tree NY Times delivered to his house each day? You would think the Times would be in favor of these old geezers living forever...
I think you're right. Why, this may just be the thing to stamp out racism.
One could dub it, I don't know, maybe The Generational Expiration Act.
They just have to go for the common good; especially those of the more noble: children and minorities.
Commie thinking. According to the NYT omeone must contribute a "social benefit" to be considered worthy.
We are not, however, obliged to help the old become indefinitely older. Indeed, our duty may be just the reverse: to let death have its day.
Who is "we"? Gov't? So this "duty" is to decide when to kill off the elderly? Disgusting.
We usually kill ourselves quite handily.
Sounds like a kinder gentler Nazism in the begining
“Even if anti-aging research could give us radically longer lives someday, though, should we even be seeking them? Regardless of what science makes possible, or what individual people want, aging is a public issue with social consequences, and these must be thought through. “
Obama to Jane Sturm: Hey, take a pill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo
Granny is Safe - Obama lies about Obamacare nightmare for seniors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5aoFk_yEqY
What is aging? being a dum arse liberal is an act of mental dementia propaganda retard repeat.
Unequivocally, absolutely yes.
yeah, well, old people are just about the only ones anymore who still subscribe to the New York Times. So the joke’s on them.
The solution againt aging is having children. Do not sow a new patch on an old wine skin.
Evil.
Out in the open, full frontal, in your face evil.
Cancer is the antiaging cell by excellence.
Mamny people want to be served by science while living completely absurd lives devoid of any thought and fully corrupt, happy in their silliness. It is also called welfare and feminism.
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