{"id":34716,"date":"2017-02-20T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/moral-implications"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:13:26","slug":"moral-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/moral-implications","title":{"rendered":"Moral implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s my take on why the overpopulation objection to rejuvenation is morally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In this article, I\u2019ll try to show that the overpopulation objection against rejuvenation is morally deplorable. For this purpose, whether or not the world is overpopulated or might be such in the future doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ll deal with facts and data in the two other articles dedicated to this objection; for now, all I want is getting to the conclusion that not developing rejuvenation for the sake of avoiding overpopulation is morally unacceptable (especially when considering the obvious and ethically more sound alternative), and thus overpopulation doesn\u2019t constitute a valid objection to rejuvenation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll start with an example. Imagine there\u2019s a family of two parents and three children. They\u2019re not doing too well financially, and they live packed in a tiny apartment with no chances of moving somewhere larger. Clearly they cannot afford having more children, but they would really like having more anyway. What should they do?<\/p>\n<p>The only reasonable answer is that they should <strong>not<\/strong> have any more children until they can afford having them. Throwing away the old ones for the sake of some other child to be even conceived yet would be nothing short of sheer madness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/objections-to-rejuvenation\/rejuvenation-would-cause-overpopulation\/moral-implications\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/ob...lications\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s my take on why the overpopulation objection to rejuvenation is morally unacceptable. In this article, I\u2019ll try to show that the overpopulation objection against rejuvenation is morally deplorable. For this purpose, whether or not the world is overpopulated or might be such in the future doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ll deal with facts and data in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34716","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=34716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35219,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34716\/revisions\/35219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}