Objective: In this debate; “ Are Life Spans Long Enough?” Ian Ground and Paul Rootwolpe are debating again Aubrey DeGrey and Brian Kennedy. Mr.Ground and Mr. Rootwolpe are for this motion, agreeing that life spans are long enough. Mr. DeGrey and Mr. Kennedy are against the motion, disagreeing that life spans are long enough, they believe you should have to right to live as long as you please. Ian Ground has a 1st class degree in Philosophy and English Literature at New Castle University. He then researched philosophical aesthetics , serves as a tutor at many northeastern university in England. His partner Mr. Paul Rootwolpe is the Asa Griggs Candler professor of Bioethics, the Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a professor
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If there was a way for people to have the right to live until 200+ years it would not follow the basic “rules” of biology and the overall “normal” human life. Over the years, the human life span has increased from about 47 to 79. The lifespan of when you were born to when you die, in a way directs and shows people when to enter school, when to leave or graduate school, when to get married or when to start a family. If you live 200+ years that would mess everything up. Some people would start a family at what they think is their peak age of 125 instead of 25. I also know that right now, America is an MDC ( more developed country.) This means that the death rate is lower than and slower than the birth rate. If people were to start living longer and not passing away than the death rate would be much much slower and overpopulation would begin to be a problem. I think this could be something worth doing. If you were a child or a teen that had not yet lived the enjoyable life that you wanted to live and you were told by a physician that you had 4 years to live then I believe that medicine and this “ solution to aging “ would be a good thing for you. Also I believe that everything happens for a reason and if you believe in God, then he believes that it is your time to go home. After I watched the debate my opinion was still the same, during
If there was a way for people to have the right to live until 200+ years it would not follow the basic “rules” of biology and the overall “normal” human life. Over the years, the human life span has increased from about 47 to 79. The lifespan of when you were born to when you die, in a way directs and shows people when to enter school, when to leave or graduate school, when to get married or when to start a family. If you live 200+ years that would mess everything up. Some people would start a family at what they think is their peak age of 125 instead of 25. I also know that right now, America is an MDC ( more developed country.) This means that the death rate is lower than and slower than the birth rate. If people were to start living longer and not passing away than the death rate would be much much slower and overpopulation would begin to be a problem. I think this could be something worth doing. If you were a child or a teen that had not yet lived the enjoyable life that you wanted to live and you were told by a physician that you had 4 years to live then I believe that medicine and this “ solution to aging “ would be a good thing for you. Also I believe that everything happens for a reason and if you believe in God, then he believes that it is your time to go home. After I watched the debate my opinion was still the same, during