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For one thing murder would not be possible - right? So war would be pointless. Capital punishment would be impossible.
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Quite correct deductions
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As well as marrage. If disease cannot kill us then that would pretty much solve the so-called expense of health care.
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Marriage won't be affected. Only issues won't be there since births won't take place. Health expenses would be as usual since disease, accidents etc would be existing as usual.
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Money might become obsolete because the main motivation for working hard at a job we don't like is because we must eat food. In your world eating would not be done anymore because to eat you must kill something, which is impossible, and starving to death likewise impossible.
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Some intervention and clarification is needed in this regard. Plants would not die. The modified formula would apply only to animal kingdom. Again hunger would not go away so money would continue to have importance as hinted by gela. Also my othe rdream would come true...that is whole world would turn vegetarian.
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And how could you clear land to build new houses and or highways if you cannot kill and distroy trees and so forth. So we would just live in nature with only what leftover man-made stuff that remained form our past exsistance in this life & death situation.
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Not that way, all developments would continue since plants won't live eternally.
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Our cells would not die and regenerate and so children would remain as children and adults would continue as-is also. Perhaps sex would still be possible but it would serve no practical purpose. No fears of having unwanted children. (no more abortion topic to debate).
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What to speculate is that aging would take place. So after say another 20 years there would no children, teenagers and later after half a centuary everybody would be old man. I agree that would look unplesant. But then, how does that matter to an individual as long as he enjoys his life.
As per unwanted children and abortion topic... you are right.
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The main concern would to dealing with possible boredom after the first few hundred years of the same-o same-o. No way out and not exit policy. We would ether have to find ways to enjoy life or suffer eternal depression that cannot be solved by suicide.
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No, nothing such concern would be there. Life would go on as it goes currently. There would no change in entertainment, emotions, greed, selfishness and the like...so we need not find ways to enjoy.
We only need to think we may be bored for thousands of years with the same routine Quote:
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Cat napping might become very popular, but not clock watching. We might distroy all clocks because who would care about time anymore?
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Why so ???
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No more candy, beer, cigarettes, drugs, and so forth, all of which are products of things being killed.
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All this would remain in tact
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No more need for tolets, no need to inhale air and so parts of our body would become obsolete.
Things living underwater could venture onto land and things on land could walk around under water... no problem if you cannot die from suffication.
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No such thing would happen since suffering would remain as is existing. Lack of air would suffocate as it is suffocating but death won't take place. A person would be tired of pressing one's throat but person won't die. He has to give in ultimately.
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And so much of what we call living and growth would be no more, not a part of life as it is now. We would stop living life as we now live it.
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No, aging would be there as explained ealier.