If a cure for aging was found today which enabled you to live for 800 yrs, would you still join the infantry?

Question

If american scientists found a safe and cheap cure/method for aging that would allow you to live for as long as you want (up to 800 years) without any age related diseases (such as cancer, alzhimers, diabetes..etc) in a healthy state with the physical and mental condition of 30 year old and the majority of leaders decided taking this "aging cure" didn't contradict any ethical or religious values, would you still join the military's infantry division knowing you could probably die in the current Iraqi war? Or would you not join and take the cure and see how long you can live before you died of something else besides age or disease?

P.S. Scientists said overpopulation would be a problem because by the time we started becoming over populated we will have developed the technology to colonize space.

Answer 1

I'm in the infantry now. I would absolutely take the cure and stay in service.

I could also die of a traffic accident, snakebite, or some random fluke accident. Why would I just sit around with the sole purpose of my life being to clock as many years as I can being sedentary, fearing every day that some disease would knock me off before 800?

That doesn't sound like a life worth living. I'll take the cure because it'll keep my body from breaking down prematurely, but I wouldn't avoid service in the infantry. I'd welcome it until that tap on the shoulder from above says it's time to move on.

Answer 2

I wouldn't join the infantry regardless of how long my life expectancy was going to be. I did join the Air Force though, and proudly served for 22 years and a few months. Anyway, my point is that joining the military is an admirable choice for anyone to make. You are assuming that you will die, if you join the military. If you use that thought, then would you drive a car ever again? More people die on the highways of the US, in a given day, than in the entire military in a given month at war? Would you stop flying on airplanes? There are so many ways of having your life end before you "want" to go, so, by choosing to "not" do those things that could cause you to die a premature death, would leave you with staying in bed for the rest of your life. And that would be a reason not to take the cure.

Answer 3

No, most join the army because all the money that could've been spent on education and getting people to go to college has been spent on the war, so the only way to go to college now without too much money is to join the army.
See the loop there?

I would NEVER join the army if it was something like the Iraqi war, because I don't kill innocent people who can't harm America at all. Meanwhile, I'd NEVER live for 800 years. I'm hoping to die by the time I turn 60.

Answer 4

I am in the infantry. No one joins the infantry planning to die. Everybody believes they will be the one to make it through. Any soldier in the infantry takes immense pride in being the one whose duties require the most sacrifice. I wouldn't pick any other job in the world than leading America's finest.

Answer 5

I wouldn't take something that will let me live that long, but I wouldn't want to die in Iraq. I don't want to live so long that I've done everything and that I am extremelly bored. Also I don't want to have to listen to the same bs from the same politicians for hundreds of years.

Answer 6

one doesn't join the military becuse they have a death wish. One joins the military becuase they see it as a civil duty to defend the nation. Most persons who join up don't think "well i'll be dead by 30 anyways..."

Answer 7

It is not the years you live, but the experiences that make a lifetime rich.

I personally wouldn't join the Army. I would have stayed in the Navy (if your miracle drug would have restored my knees, too).

Answer 8

Nietzsche said that the future belongs to the man with the longest memory

Answer 9

I wouldn't now. And as to the rest of your question I believe in birth control.