I anti-aging technology morally ethical?
There is lot of research being conducted into anti-aging technology.
Eventually science may find a 'cure' for ageing.
Would the use of such a technology be morally acceptable?
-It would be as moral as anti-disease technology. There is nothing wrong
with slowing down the ravages of time. No more than is wrong with
mitigating or eliminating the ravages of disease.
-Balderdash! Anti-aging treatment preserves life. Treating diseases
preserves life. Euthanasia and infanticide destroy life.
-Is euthanasia and infanticide morally acceptable? The use of anti-aging
and anti-disease technology is the flip side of the same coin.
-As I said, these are the flip side of the same coin.
People argue that voluntary euthanasia (assisted suicide) is not morally
permissable because we have no right to interfere with the natural span
of our own lives. Yet the same people choose to ignore this argument
when it comes to treatments that prolong life.
Either it is ethical to modify our livespan of our own choosing, or it
isn't. Euthanasia and life-extension treatments both alter the natural
span of our lives. Yet one is morally OK for most people and the other
is not.
You can't have it both ways.