Is there a moral argument for unfixed life spans?
The moral argument for an unfixed life span is rooted in the dignity and worth of human life. Medicine recognizes the worth of human life by seeking to treat and cure fatal disease, religion recognizes the worth of human life by praying for the sick to get better, and law recognizes the worth of human life by the illegality of murder. The operating principle in all cases is that no one should die against their will. In other words, the moral argument for an unfixed life span is the immorality of advocating the alternative: conditions in which people are forced to die by a specific time whether they are ready or not. Collectivists may argue that even when someone is not ready to die, they should still die in the interest of greater social good. However it’s a strange social good that requires sickness and death for every man and woman on earth, willing or otherwise. This is a doctrine of serial mass extinction, not social good. It is generational genocide. Fortunately our quality and le
