ShrimpWonder
ShrimpWonder
ShrimpWonder

That sounds terribly boring.

No, I didn't read them because I figured they were based on the assumption that I saw immortality as "unnatural". I'll check them out when I have the time and return with counterarguments/agreement.

Cue commenters dismissing the debate by calling it "PC bullshit" or saying that everyone's blowing this out of proportion.

You say rarely, but I see it happen constantly in my government. My city's mayor has been in power for my entire life (I'm 19), and it's the same in many other cities. It is also common in universities, where adequate and sub-par professors keep their post for decades. Often these people only retire because of age.

1.We live on finite resources on a finite planet. I'd agree to immortality once we've taken care of world hunger, war, and developed space travel and terraforming. Otherwise we'd just have an ever-present mass of powerful rich people controlling everything and even more overpopulation than we already have.

I don't mean selfish in a "fight the natural order of things" kind of way. It's a lot more personal. Let's say you have a job, and you're adequate at it. No one has any reason to fire you, but you're also not being an innovator in any way. And out there is someone who could change the world in your position, but can't

But jet planes, robots on mars, cures for polio and scarlet fever are not inherently selfish. Your entire life, you are taking the space and materials that another human life could use. Now, that's great as long as you're useful, and you contribute. Living forever means you are preventing another contributing mind

If y'all were brown, they would call it illegal.

Man, if you can continue puffing on a joint AFTER blacking out, that picture needs to remain on the Internet as a monument to your partying abilities.

Depends on how they come out on top. If it's through hard work and talent/cleverness then hell yeah, that's fair. All I'm talking about is that there currently is no even playing field. The game is rigged for white heterosexual males to win.

While I agree that Jezebel can be a scary and confusing place, most of the time when a woman doesn't come out on top it IS another example of how the patriarchy is affecting our society. Even if at first it doesn't look that way. A lot of the misogyny plaguing the entertainment business is fully internalized and

Beautifully said.

Oh man. I learned how to draw from "Joe Kubert's Comic Book Studio." My art means a lot to me, and that book was what started it. Rest in peace, Kubert.

Regardless of whether you personally think it will do good, or how much you dislike Kutcher, you're shitting on the livelihood of all the people involved in this movie. It's an independent film, so it's not like a gigantic corporation poured money into it, the money that goes into making this movie doesn't just come

Apple has a patent on rounded edges.

So the two futures will meet somewhere in the middle?

It's so interesting to know that there's people that actually read about trains for the fun of it. Man.

Comment got featured, actually. Or whatever Kinja does that makes a comment show up as the first.

If I was a clever paranoid, I'd just dig out the sensors and swallow them without the pill.

It should be about that guy and his furry lover.