If they discovered the cure for age, should they disribute it?

Answer 1

So you're asking if there were a pill to make people not grow old and die, should that pill be distributed. Well we can ponder that philosophically, but first I would like to point out something with my limited knowledge of genetics.

Perhaps it is a misnomer to assume everything grows old and dies. It does. However, there is one type of cell that would presumably live forever. Cancer. Cancerous cells never die during division. They continue to grow and consume the host. Eventually, if the cancer is not eradicated, the host will die, and so will the cancer as your body decomposes.

The only reason everyone dies inevitably is due to cell detoriation. Your DNA contains a protective coating called telomere. Telomere is a region of DNA at the end of a chromosome that protects the start of the genetic coding sequence against shortening during successive replications. When your DNA replicates itself, this telomere, or protective coating, becomes frayed over time until it is no longer capable of holding your DNA together. Hence, cells die. Your DNA also contains small amounts of telomerase. Telomerase replenishes telomere, but there is not enough of it in the human body to keep you living forever.

When the telomeres are constantly being replenished at the ends of the chromosomes, it allows for cancer growth. The very thing that will save your cells will cause them to overproduce in the form of cancerous tumors. No one lives forever.

So in answer to the philosophical point your question begs to ask, I feel if people lived forever, then the planet would become consumed with human beings as we destroy our very host. We would be cancerous to the planet. We would pollute and choke out life on earth until we all died in the end.

Not only is there no way to accomplish this, but it would be detrimental to the planet if it were. Perhaps only a few people could swallow this magical elixer, but that wouldn't hardly be fair now, would it?

Answer 2

If they discovered the cure for age, they definitely will distribut it, with a price.
For those people who discovered it will have the control over the society, and make the society work for them. It is just like the mode of production, has been shifted from land to capital, then to age-cure-medicine.
With this great reward, even though this such of cure will bring much more pain to society, they will still choose to distribute it.

Answer 3

I am assuming by "cure for aging" you mean being able to stop the aging process, and therefore establishing a "near" immortality(people could still die of disease, trauma, etc.) As other people have stated, this would probably not be a good idea because of factors such as overpopulation. Another concern would be that the sheer economics of life and the things that are required to sustain it, would eventually lead to someone having to decide who could be "cured" and who couldn't or shouldn't. Is that the type of decision we would want governments or insurance companies to make?
In closing, it is the fact that we are on this earth for such a relatively short amount of time, that gives meaning to our lives. If a person were to live for two hundred years, would they cherish or enjoy their life experiences(love, sex, eating, marrying, having children, succeding, etc.) as much as a person who lived to 80 or 90? I say those experiences would gradually begin to lose their importance and meaning.

Answer 4

If they distributed it people would collect many scares and diseases and would eventually die from non-age related injuries. The population would dramatically increase in a very short period of time which would eventually balance out by the number of people dieing from starvation. You would have more people but they would be more miserable, so I think it would be a bad idea to distribute it.

Using the same logic, if they discovered a way to have people die a little earlier than they do now, that would probably be better.

If you combined it with a contraceptive, then you might really have something.

Answer 5

There is a cure for age; it's called dying

Answer 6

AGE IS NOT A DISEASE, SO THERE CANNOT BE A CURE FOR THE NATURAL PROCESS OF AGING.BESIDES, WE CANNOT EVEN FIND A CURE FOR CANCER, AIDS, HERPES, OR THE COMMON COLD.