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Against "Against Life Extension"
A response to Francis Fukuyama's case against longevity research
Dr. Fukuyama, when you plant the word"against" adjacent to the phrase "life extension," you've earned an "F" in Longevity Strawman Arguments, Volume 1. The project of longevity is ethically imperative and economically rational; opposing it requires selective amnesia about medicine's entire record. In longevity discourse, this is the classic objection: aging is complex, so targeting individual diseases is futile—like playing whack-a-mole at a carnival.
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