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

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Alar

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Again, it would determine whether or not the parts are all there and if they just don't work for reproduction, but can still work recreationally. If that was the case, I'd be all for it. I'd also have a sample of my genetic lineage frozen and preserved for later, in case I ever wanted children.

If it meant I would lose all the parts... probably not. Not unless I knew there was going to be some research in the future to reproduce the bits and pieces for the enjoyment of myself (and others).
 

brunothepig

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No poll?
As for me, it's the "hells yeah, sign me up option". I don't plan on having children anyway. Plus, if it gets boring, shoot yourself. Or fight crime until you die a heroic death.
 

GotMalkAvian

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Having a vasectomy? Sure, I'd take the deal, since I wouldn't mind getting one anyway. If I was completely unable to ever have sex again? Probably not.
 

Macrobstar

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couldn't you just live like 70 years of having sex and kids and then when you're about to die, take the potion?
 

Silky-90

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If I could still have sex, I probably would. Lots of factors involved there, big advantage obviously being that I can still pretty much do what I want for as long as I want..
..And as soon as I don't feel like it anymore I can still kill myself and end it.

The no-sex-thing sorta takes a bit of that away, so I'd say I probably wouldn't do it in that case.
 

Dana22

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If it was Immortality without being able to be killed, yeah I would give much for it.

But elven immortality in the long term would only lead to paranoia and extreme fear of death.
 

Comrade_Beric

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Immortality with the cost of being Sterile? Yes.

Immortality with the cost of being asexual? Tough, but still probably yes.

For some perspective, I'm not asexual already. Point of fact, I consider sex to be one of the greatest experiences life has to offer, but consider what we're multiplying here. If I quantified the amount of sexual pleasure gained with each act (1,000) and then multiplied it by the reasonable maximum number of times I might have it in my life time (1,000), I get a total of 1,000,000. Now, lets assume that I consider... idk, let's take reading, to be a fairly low joy activity, but still positive at 10 points per instance. We count the number of books I'd probably read over a lifetime 500, and multiply to get 5,000 pleasure. Getting laid 5 times would equal all of the books I'd ever read. Here's the trick though. The immortality being offered is basically multiplying all of those activities by infinity if I'm willing to multiply the sexual pleasure gained by 0. Okay, maybe not infinity, we'll assume that in a million years, I'll have blundered into a situation where I am hit by a bus or am too close to a nuclear reactor on boom day, but in that time I'll have the ability to do a huge number of activities. If I used the entire time exclusively for reading (a fairly low joy activity) and could manage 10 books a year for a full million years, then the equation is 10 points x 10 books x 1,000,000 years. Thus, even using my time inefficiently, I'll have gained one hundred million (100,000,000) pleasure by the end with the cost of the one million (1,000,000) from sex I would have gained. Total profit of 99,000,000. An incredibly good trade and that assumes that I don't do anything more personally interesting in that time.

*waves away diminishing returns counter argument hoping no one notices*
 

iblis666

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lets see im fertile and immortal but the government has me put a small tube in my urethra so i cant have kids ... sounds awesome and when we start spreading out to the stars i can get it reversed and have a whole planet full of kids
 

Jezzy54

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Never worry about having children? Immortality too? Sign me up! That second part is totally different, but changing the conditions is cheating so it doesn't count.
 

AngloDoom

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Sterility? Sure, fine, why not. That's more than worth it.

Not sex again? No thanks.

Hey, the moment you said that I can still top myself if necessary then sex was pretty much the only thing that could persuade me not to.
 

starkiller212

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Hmmm... Immortality or Children... can I have neither? I think immortality would have too many drawbacks to be worth it, but at the same time I don't plan on passing my disease-ridden DNA onto any other potential people anyway. I don't agree with everything in this article, but it's a funny list of some reasons why immortality might suck: http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html
 

SkyeNeko

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Nimcha said:
Of course I would, I'm not planning on using my uterus anyway.
This is my answer. +20 internets to you for summing everything up for me.

Now I just need to find out whether I really want to live forever.
 
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Wait, I thought you can still have sex after a vasectomy. All it does is stop the vans deferens from adding the sperm cells to the semen. You'd still be shooting, only difference being you're shooting blanks now.
 

Candidus

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Chefodeath said:
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?
I'd take the offer provided that I could donate sperm before the procedure. We are *all* here today because not a single one of our direct ancestors failed to reproduce- not one in tens of thousands of years. That's meaningful to me, and so long as I can ensure that the line continues after my unnatural removal from it, then I would.

"No sex" is an acceptable sacrifice.