Immortality! And all it will cost are your "family jewels"

[demoman_chaos]

Since I don't like children, yes. I would accept.

 

[Dystopia]

What's with all the sex/masturbation hate? I couldn't last a week without it, let alone eternity.

As a 23 year old female, my biological clock is ticking and therefore I NEED to have children in the next ten years or so. And who wants to live forever anyway? I'd just have no motivation to go out and do the things I want to do.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Suppose that the mad scientists working in their labs one day stumble across the elixer of eternal life. Its easy to mass produce, and drinking it will make you BIOLOGICALLY immortal. This means you won't age or die from disease, but if you get cleaved in the head with an axe, you're pretty much gone. Think elf immortality.

There's a problem however. If everyone is immortal, and having kids who are also immortal, who will also have kids that are immortal, we're gonna run out of room pretty damn fast. So, the catch is that you have to get a vasectomy if you're a man or your tubes tied if you're a woman and be completely unable to have children for the rest of your ungodly lifespan.

Would you take the offer? Would you take it if it instead came not just at the cost of being able to have children, but at the cost of never having sex again?

If I want a vasectomy, I'll get one in a way that doesn't involve a fate worse than death.

 

[Syntax Error]

Meh, I still prefer to be immortal just by the virtue of not dying. Look up Hob Gadling.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Absolutely, small price to pay to have a massive load off my mind. Hell, even with no biological children, I can always adopt.

 

[Bobbity]

I think I'd wait until I'd find someone I love, perhaps have a child, and then go for immortality. I wouldn't go through with it any earlier than my late twenties, but I wouldn't want to wait much longer than my early-mid thirties either.

I'd definitely go for it though. Infinite time to devote to learning and mastering different things, meeting new people and experiencing new stuff, yes please. If I had to go without sex? That's a damned sight harder. To use Terry Pratchett's way of putting it, you'd be extending your existence, but not your life.

 

[theultimateend]

The issue of space will likely not be a problem in the not-to-distant future.

Science hasn't exactly stopped, space travel and the issues around it would be utterly negated by immortality and the issue of reproduction would be a boon not a curse.

 

[Johnny Reb]

if i was immortal i probably wouldn't want to have kids in the first place. i mean i would rather not out live my wife, and my kids. its like Sean Connery in the highlander. he goes through nothing but pain when he falls in love only to see his love die of old age while he still looks like a bad ass Spaniard with a Scottish accent.

 

[Slayer_2]

No, although it's not because I care about having a kids, it's because immortality sucks. Being 70 sounds bad enough, imagine 700.

 

[twaddle]

if it's just a vasectomy like you say, then hell yes i would. If i want kids i would just adopt. Do you realize how many homeless and impoverished kids in the world that need love? Though there would be a catch to this for me to agree. let me go make a donation before i do the deed or let my girlfriend become immortal as well

 

[Nieroshai]

You said removal of reproductive ability, not removal of the genitals. So, being immortal and being able to have sex without risk of pregnancy? You sir have written every adult male's fantasy!

 

[p3t3r]

i don't know i have no problems with my mortality at the moment.

 

[Alade]

I wouldn't even blink, too easy decision.

 

[Nieroshai]

Suppose that the mad scientists working in their labs one day stumble across the elixer of eternal life. Its easy to mass produce, and drinking it will make you BIOLOGICALLY immortal. This means you won't age or die from disease, but if you get cleaved in the head with an axe, you're pretty much gone. Think elf immortality.

There's a problem however. If everyone is immortal, and having kids who are also immortal, who will also have kids that are immortal, we're gonna run out of room pretty damn fast. So, the catch is that you have to get a vasectomy if you're a man or your tubes tied if you're a woman and be completely unable to have children for the rest of your ungodly lifespan.

Would you take the offer? Would you take it if it instead came not just at the cost of being able to have children, but at the cost of never having sex again?

A vasectomy does not disable the ability to attain an erection or an orgasm, it merely prevents sperm from being mixed with the semen.

 

[Chefodeath]

The issue of space will likely not be a problem in the not-to-distant future.

Science hasn't exactly stopped, space travel and the issues around it would be utterly negated by immortality and the issue of reproduction would be a boon not a curse.

I don't know why people think this. I mean, do you know how long it would take to find a planet suitabe for colonization, let alone the ungodly amount of times and resources to terreform it?

I think biological immortality and the threat of mass overpopulation it implies will be upon us long before we can colonize planets fast enough to deal with it.

 

[mike1921]

Infertile: I want to be infertile anyway. Even if I don't want to live a day over 30 it saves me money
Can't have sex: I'm not a normal person and have nowhere near a normal sex drive, so I probably would take it if I had sex before and knew what it felt like

 

[zestamaster]

could you have sex without your testicles?

if so im all for it