{"id":52077,"date":"2017-04-18T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/there-are-more-urgent-issues"},"modified":"2017-04-18T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:22:22","slug":"there-are-more-urgent-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/there-are-more-urgent-issues","title":{"rendered":"There are more urgent issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven\u2019t we all heard it a billion times? \u2018There are other priorities\u2019 more urgent than defeating ageing. This article attempts to rebut that objection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<blockquote><p> <em>Somebody think of the children!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Every social justice warrior ever<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Before I say anything else, let me say this objection is one of my favourite trump cards (together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/rejuvenation-would-be-only-for-the-rich\/\" target=\"_blank\">social disparity<\/a> card), not to mention a well-known logical fallacy going by the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallacy_of_relative_privation\" target=\"blank_\">appeal to worse problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/objections-to-rejuvenation\/there-are-more-urgent-issues\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/ob...nt-issues\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven\u2019t we all heard it a billion times? \u2018There are other priorities\u2019 more urgent than defeating ageing. This article attempts to rebut that objection. Somebody think of the children!!! \u2014Every social justice warrior ever Sigh. Before I say anything else, let me say this objection is one of my favourite trump cards (together with 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":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52077","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=52077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}