Injury because I'm training to be a firefigher. I couldn't stand to live forever. I wanna put about 70 good years on the planet then I wanna get outta the way for the rest of the people here.
Poll: immortality of age or of injury?
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Considering my argument is that there would be severe downsides to being immortal, I don't think I am " proving my own side wrong".Some_weirdGuy said:
For that matter, the main reason I posted was just to point out that just because people were previously wrong about what the limits of the human body are, doesn't mean those limits don't still exist.
I didn't say that you would, I said it was likely. What I meant was that the human memory assumedly has a finite capacity. Eventually an immortal human is going to reach that capacity at which point memories will most likely be sacrificed. In that event I'm pretty sure that what we do and do not remember would not (for the most part) be a conscious decision and that the mind would place more importance on recent (significant) events as opposed to older ones.
My point was that there is little point in living forever if you can only keep a finite amount of memories. Living a long time is great, you'd get to see and experience great things, but once you hit your minds capacity, you'll end up forgetting some of them, at which point, what is the point of having experienced them in the first place?
And this is assuming your mind doesn't just snap under the strain, as has been previously suggested.
deffinatly age since injury would force me to live until my body can no long sustain me any longer I would become weak and unable to do anything but sit there and wait long peroids of time to die but it would take forver since I cant get sick or kill myself at least with age I can finish it when I feel my time has come
I'd take immunity to injury. Living forever but still being susceptible to harm sounds like an absolute nightmare. If you picked that, you had best be very, very careful for the next well, eternity. One car accident, one gunshot wound, one house fire and you may end up spending eternity as and agonised blob of conscious, undying, mangled flesh. I'll pass thanks.
Definitely Immortality to injury. Being invincible is slightly less likely to drive someone insane over eons. Once you become immortal in terms of time, you start to lose sight of being human, because you eventually find everything boring (this probably occurs after at least a few centuries)
i think it'd be interesting to find anyone who has immunity to injury, then encase them in concrete for 10 years, if only to find out how insane it makes them
good times
(aka: i'd rather go immortality of age)
good times
(aka: i'd rather go immortality of age)
It's a bit confusing since illness and (gradual) injury from both external and internal forces are what kills you instead of just 'one more year' falling off the clock, but I get what you're saying.
The way I see it:
"By AGE": A (potentially) VERY LONG life of paranoid caution until something eventually fucks up.
"By INJURY": A REGULAR life of pure, living it up fun and hedonism. All the self-destructive fun without consequence. Can you imagine a how liberating a life, even a regular one, free from fear would be???
You know where my money is... provided my interpretation of the question is as I thought it is.
The way I see it:
"By AGE": A (potentially) VERY LONG life of paranoid caution until something eventually fucks up.
"By INJURY": A REGULAR life of pure, living it up fun and hedonism. All the self-destructive fun without consequence. Can you imagine a how liberating a life, even a regular one, free from fear would be???
You know where my money is... provided my interpretation of the question is as I thought it is.
Defo age but only if you could send me back in time. Stayin immortal in this day in age would fuckin suck.
But if we suppose that a treatment or device exists that can create such an immortality state, why would I be the only one to receive it?zarix2311 said:
Anyway, protect me from aging, please. I've perfectly survived until now with my squishy, fragile self. I think I can manage that for a while longer.
It also happens to be a pile of bullshit. The scientists deactivated important protein generation in mice, watched their bodies fall apart, then reactivated to see them regain a semblance of health. Taken in human terms that would mean they took a 20 year old, rapidly aged him to 80 and then restored back to 40 by letting the body recover.ThisIsSnake said:
Probably age, because then i could off myself if i wanted to, and as many have noted, could live until the human race solves all sickness, but i'd probably have to see all my friends and family go before me. Reminds me of Hoenheim(Fullmetal Alchemist).
immortal means you can't die as either by any means or from old age to be immune from injury or sickness you'd be invulnerable like Ms. Marvel of Marvel Comics.
Though if someone is fully invulnerable they'd be immortal too, just short of dying from starvation, thirst, lack of oxygen, or poisons since growing weaker due to age is caused by the slow determination of cells in the body over years of reproducing themselves and ware and tare.
Though if someone is fully invulnerable they'd be immortal too, just short of dying from starvation, thirst, lack of oxygen, or poisons since growing weaker due to age is caused by the slow determination of cells in the body over years of reproducing themselves and ware and tare.
Your question is flawed my good man! immunity to all types of injury/disease would more than likely mean you would live far beyond the length of anyone "normal" person!
Firstly, any male over the age of 75 will have prostate cancer. Thats right boys, we have an inbuilt self destruct system! But with no injury or disease, thats out the window. And nothings gonna slow you down old timer, as arthiritis (sp?) is a desease that affects the joints, but not you! You'll be as spry as a 10 year old! And without joint aches slowing you, you wont be sat around causing muscle wastage, which would lead to bone loss, which would in turn make you a hunched old biddy! But not for injury free man! Oh no, you'd be able to do anything, forever!
And a question I must pose; how would one build any new muscle? With immunity to injury, and new muscle being created after it is "injured," would one only have what nature intended, or would you walk into a gym a beanpole, and walk out looking like the hulk? Would the muscle tissue torn from the workout repair instantly, or would there be no damage (and therefore no exhaustion) at all?!
Also, we age because of the damage our cells take then they are injured, or even during mitosis, because in humans there is an enzyme, telomerase, which acts like the little plastic thingy on the end of your shoelaces for your DNA - it keeps the ends of your DNA from unraveling. Unfortunately, every time your cells divide, some of this is lost, meaning you are breaking your body's ability to regenerate itself every time you grow or heal. Would you class this as injury on a cellular level? Because if we do not lose this enzyme we can effectivly live forever!
So for the tl;dr crowd, I'd take the immunity to injury, and live forever anyway.
Firstly, any male over the age of 75 will have prostate cancer. Thats right boys, we have an inbuilt self destruct system! But with no injury or disease, thats out the window. And nothings gonna slow you down old timer, as arthiritis (sp?) is a desease that affects the joints, but not you! You'll be as spry as a 10 year old! And without joint aches slowing you, you wont be sat around causing muscle wastage, which would lead to bone loss, which would in turn make you a hunched old biddy! But not for injury free man! Oh no, you'd be able to do anything, forever!
And a question I must pose; how would one build any new muscle? With immunity to injury, and new muscle being created after it is "injured," would one only have what nature intended, or would you walk into a gym a beanpole, and walk out looking like the hulk? Would the muscle tissue torn from the workout repair instantly, or would there be no damage (and therefore no exhaustion) at all?!
Also, we age because of the damage our cells take then they are injured, or even during mitosis, because in humans there is an enzyme, telomerase, which acts like the little plastic thingy on the end of your shoelaces for your DNA - it keeps the ends of your DNA from unraveling. Unfortunately, every time your cells divide, some of this is lost, meaning you are breaking your body's ability to regenerate itself every time you grow or heal. Would you class this as injury on a cellular level? Because if we do not lose this enzyme we can effectivly live forever!
So for the tl;dr crowd, I'd take the immunity to injury, and live forever anyway.
Injury, because it goes beyond the ideas that you can survive anything. Think about it this way. Most of the time our brain holds back our muscles true strength to prevent us from injuring ourselves. Now if you can't possibly injure yourself why would your brain have any need to hold back.
Invincibility + Above average strength and stamina FTW!
Invincibility + Above average strength and stamina FTW!
Um... injury, like you said I coudn't face being the only human being on the planet after everyone else dies and after the planet is gone there will be nothing but orbit so it woudn't be worth it. Injury would also include death which counts as an injury so none.