Love
Genuinely caring for one another.
From it stems empathy, respect, caring about the planet, about the ones struggling, and all the good stuff.
Take care, fellow humans ❤️
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Love, sweet love
Komodo Dragons. Apex predators in general. It would do humanity a ton of good if we were being actively hunted at all times of the day. We're built for that. Keeps us on our toes and down to earth.
It would do humanity a ton of good if we were being actively hunted at all times of the day.
We are, just by society - i.e something we haven't evolved to survive being hunted by. We're much like dodos.
People like YOU!
Kindness
Trust
Trustworthiness.
karma.
Positive news.
I don't know what the world may need, but I'm sure as hell that it starts with me. That's wisdom I've laughed at
Catgirls
Cooperatives and nationalization of key industries.
A new species that humbles humans.
Longevity / rejuvenation / aging-reversal researchers and funding.
We can already reverse aging in lab and could it bring to humans in wild. But for that we need resources.
I just don't see why this sort of thing qualifies as a need and not a want. Such a treatment, were it to ever actually leave a lab setting and become a consumer product, would almost certainly be so prohibitively expensive that only the ultra-wealthy could get it.
Why should our uber-rich overlords get to extend their lives even a single year while there are people starving to death around the world? There are so many better ways to spend research grant money.
Would you say that there is no need for better research for curing cancer just because new treatments will be super expensive, so only uber-rich zilionairs will benefit?
Probably not. (I hope)
Aging-caused diseases are really just some other type of health problems that leads to death. And curing such things is what medicine is doing. Heart bypass is a great example of helping to survive such problem.
And yes, new tech is usually expensive. And with adoption it became not only cheaper but better. Compare first mobile phones that was super expensive and could do nearly nothing to todays cheap smartphone that is more powerful than the computer that helped us to land on the Moon. If you care about health of poor and middle class people, you could rather help to accelerate the adoption, so more people can afford aging-reversal medicine sooner and not suffer from aging.
I think I see where you're coming from, but I disagree that longevity treatments are equivalent to medical research that seeks to cure diseases.
The way I see it, everything dies eventually, even the stars above. I think it's one thing to seek to ensure that everyone gets to reach their 'natural' end (i.e. old age) by addressing things like cancer or degenerative diseases, and a totally different thing to artificially extend a lifespan past those natural limits.
I don't really have logic there to back it up, it's just a different category in my head. The only time I really see this sort of stuff talked about is by loony wealthy people doing crazy shit like stealing their kid's plasma in the name of living longer, which is probably coloring my perception unfairly of real longevity research.
Edit: fixed a typo and clarification
Yeah, that's understandable! The society teaches us from early age that there is a distinction between "diseases" and "aging". So this distinction continues in our minds and we hardly ever question it. We learn it by imitation without deep understanding. In most cases it works well and serves as a usable and attention-saving shortcut. And it also may be responsible for prolonging old concepts that need a review.
Trans people 🏳️⚧️
As I understand it, being trans even in the most accepting environment is an uncomfortable experience at best. Even traumatizing.
I'd love to see a world where being trans is as normalized and accepted as eye color.
The trauma and dysphoria come almost exclusively from societies attempts to shove us into a box. From being othered, from being told we don't understand our own bodies and minds. Being trans is uncomfortable at times, yes, but so is just being a human being.
Doesn't body dysmorphia exist outside of society though? I don't know if there's been any anthropological study done, but I would assume that it would exist and be traumatizing regardless of the society you were in.
Ideally, being trans wouldn't even be a thing - people would just be who they are without anyone worrying about gender roles.
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More rehearsals of what's happened in September 2 1859, but multiplied like never before.
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