Rantings of a Mad Man: Ethics of Immortality
Last time I stated that I believed that Immortality is possible to achieve and I spoke that the ethics behind whether Immortality should be achieved is what will/can prevent it. Before we get into whether it is ethical or not we need to understand what ethics is and how they are determined. Ethics are in laymen terms right and wrong. Right and wrong in turn is determined by what a society thinks, in fact what is right and wrong can be determined by anyone. The thing is that since right and wrong is determined by society, whether immortality is achievable will also be in turn be decided by society. As of right now society is at a crossroads on this issue, in social standards both sides are ethical. As an individual I try to break away from societies influence and ponder things myself although I am sure I fail to do this quite often and am just unaware of it, as I said before everyone is right when it comes to ethics however society will enforce what it thinks is right. Personally I say people should have the ability to choose if/when this comes to be as this is a life changing decision of course this could be abused and used against people that don’t have it...  I am not fully aware of how much damage nanomites could heal but I do find it somewhat plausible that if you were to throw someone equipped with them into lava they wouldn’t regenerate.
