{"id":33692,"date":"2017-01-21T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-point-of-rebutting-objections-to-rejuvenation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:43","slug":"the-point-of-rebutting-objections-to-rejuvenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-point-of-rebutting-objections-to-rejuvenation","title":{"rendered":"The point of rebutting objections to rejuvenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-point-of-rebutting-objections-to-rejuvenation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is, in my opinion, the real point of rebutting objections to rejuvenation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you\u2019ve hung around here long enough, you probably know I have two pet peeves: ageing and money. If we assume the saying \u2018Only two things are certain in life: death and taxes\u2019 is true, then we\u2019re forced to conclude that I advocate for the (indirect) elimination of the only two certainties in life. So, if you came here looking for certainties, I\u2019m afraid you\u2019re in the wrong place.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m (mostly) not joking. Lately I\u2019ve been working a lot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/\">Answers to objections<\/a> section, which together with a few discussions I\u2019ve had on the Internet, got me thinking about the point of rebutting objections to rejuvenation. Generally, when I discuss the subject with somebody who\u2019s not at all sold on the idea of rejuvenating people, I get the feeling they expect me to prove beyond doubt that nothing can possibly go wrong, either along the way between here and an ageless world or once that world has been reached. If my feeling is correct, opposers to rejuvenation may expect that my rebuttals are meant to prove that neither a post-ageing world, nor the journey to it, will present any problems or challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This expectation is utterly unrealistic. It\u2019s actually worse than that\u2014it\u2019s completely wrong. There\u2019s no way in hell I (or anyone else) could guarantee that we won\u2019t have a dictator ruling a nation for six centuries, or that environmental problems won\u2019t be exacerbated, etc. The reason I can\u2019t promise none of the above will happen is the very same reason why rejuvenation opposers can\u2019t promise <em>any<\/em> of the above will happen: Nobody can <em>actually<\/em> predict the future.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/21\/the-point-of-rebutting-objections-to-rejuvenation\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/21\/the-point-of-...uvenation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, in my opinion, the real point of rebutting objections to rejuvenation. If you\u2019ve hung around here long enough, you probably know I have two pet peeves: ageing and money. If we assume the saying \u2018Only two things are certain in life: death and taxes\u2019 is true, then we\u2019re forced to conclude that I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59036,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692\/revisions\/59036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}