Why It Won't Work

July, 2006

Playboy: Immortality presents problems for us. For example, do some humans have a right to immortality if it isn't available to all?Midgley: These questions arise only because ludicrous projects such as human immortality and human control over the details of inheritance are being treated as workable. Those projects are impossible, not due to some accidental obstacle but because of our basic unalterable biology. Asking ethical questions about impossible predicaments is not just futile but corrupt...

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