{"id":34217,"date":"2017-02-06T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/tyrants-would-live-forever"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:13:49","slug":"tyrants-would-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/tyrants-would-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"Tyrants would live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short rebuttal of the \u2018immortal dictators\u2019 objection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>C\u2019mon now. This isn\u2019t even a serious objection.<\/p>\n<p>Preamble: I\u2019m sure this is obvious, and I have repeated it who knows how many times, but <em>rejuvenation would <strong>not<\/strong> make you immortal.<\/em> Rejuvenation saves your butt from diseases, not from bullets.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, let\u2019s stick to the topic of bullets and guns for a little while. This particular objection to rejuvenation is something like this: Tyrants and oppressors would sure do anything in their power to get their hands on rejuvenation and use it to perpetuate their dictatorship indefinitely. Since an everlasting dictatorship is bad, the rejuvenation therapies that might lead to it are bad too.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/objections-to-rejuvenation\/tyrants-would-live-forever\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/ob...e-forever\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short rebuttal of the \u2018immortal dictators\u2019 objection. C\u2019mon now. This isn\u2019t even a serious objection. Preamble: I\u2019m sure this is obvious, and I have repeated it who knows how many times, but rejuvenation would not make you immortal. Rejuvenation saves your butt from diseases, not from bullets. That being said, let\u2019s stick to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217","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=34217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48067,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions\/48067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}