[Phil Free]

So many of the responses I would like to comment on, but I will not cut and paste - too much work.

I LOVE the pie in the sky belief that we can do whatever we want today, because technology of the future (yet to be found) will save us. This always brings me so much joy. In laughter, that is. Who's to say we can say we will EVER have such technology? So why risk it? The answer is simple - the excuse that future generations will figure something out is an excuse to be lazy, careless, and extravagant now.

Understand that scientists get paid to come up with new ideas and inventions, whether they are beneficial or not beneficial at all. The a-bomb was a wonderful invention, no?

Another funny one: that a benevolent government will make things better. Benevolent as in our government? Benevolent as in a "Communist" one? All governments have ever amounted to are ways to centralize power and wealth, and to turn the poor into cannon fodder and servants. Or a platform for repressive, religious zealots to work on. Etc. etc.

If people are good, governments are unnecessary, if people are bad, governments are useless. We have to start managing ourselves, and setting good examples, and stop relying on governments that have only proven to be the average person's oppressor for nearly all of history.

This one's great: the cost of deer, in a near-deerless world, would skyrocket, naturally solving the problem. Yeah, like there haven't been ANY animals brought to extinction under Capitalism's self-destructive reign of terror? Ever heard of the dodo, the tasmanian tiger, and the passenger pigeon, to list a few?

Increasing our lifespan is simply unnecessary human egoising. There is not enough solid reasons to continue this trend of monsterising humanity - the drug companies, the medias, and scientists are just getting paid to keep us wanting more and more, at the cost of the environment and our sanity.

"A capitalist would sell rope to his own hangman." - Lenin

I'm no fan of Lenin, but ain't that right on the money????