This question is asking about the most common objections to indefinite life extension you encounter that you think are based on a misunderstanding or that you think are otherwise answerable.
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Indefinite life extension would make life boring/meaningless
Is this a real thing people think? This is the biggest myth to bust for skeptics? Is there a strong supporting argument somewhere that I should read?
None of the above.
"You not wanting to do something is not valid justification for preventing me from doing it."
"You would never accept killing people as a means to a positive end in other contexts, so why do you find it acceptable here?"
@IsaacKing This. It's one thing to say that you, personally, would only like to live 80 years, but forcing that preference on all others and claiming you're doing it for the sake of "human dignity" is downright murderous. And yet opponents of life extension have to defend doing so.