Is it immoral to try to extend human life through medicine?

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Sep 13, 2009 9:41 AM #487016

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The fact that something could be better spent elsewhere, doesn't make it immoral to spend it on good somewhere else. It's not immoral to help an old woman across the street, even if you could have spent the same time teaching Chinese kids English.
If everyone focused solely on the biggest problem in the world, all the others would be neglected, and everything would go to hell.

In which case the focus would be the problem and it would be wrong for everyone to do it. You're extending my analogies to their illogical conclusion.

Perhaps I should have said less right rather than more wrong. Immoral is keeping the resources. Quite moral is using them to help one person. Perfection is using them with maximum efficiency. How's that?

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Sep 13, 2009 1:07 PM #487061

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yes, it's against god. anyone using anything to prevent their own demise is going against gods will.

Any evidence to support that statement?

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Sep 13, 2009 3:26 PM #487117

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Any evidence to support that statement?

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Sep 13, 2009 7:33 PM #487247

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yes, it's against god. anyone using anything to prevent their own demise is going against gods will.

If God didn't want it to happen he wouldn't let anyone think of it.

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Sep 13, 2009 7:45 PM #487254

Using medicine to extend your life is just the same as using medicine to save you from a disease in my opinion. Who sets the point when you should stop trying to prevent and cure diseases?

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Sep 13, 2009 7:54 PM #487260

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Using medicine to extend your life is just the same as using medicine to save you from a disease in my opinion. Who sets the point when you should stop trying to prevent and cure diseases?

You misinterpret. We are talking about all medicine. Preventing disease = extending life. Ash want's to know if Calpol is wrong.

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Sep 26, 2009 3:59 AM #492054

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Why would it be immoral to extend life?

If I were a naturalist, I would say it's immoral because we live to an unnatural age, but I'm not a naturalist, so I think it's bullshit

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Sep 26, 2009 8:17 AM #492131

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If God didn't want it to happen he wouldn't let anyone think of it.

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Oct 3, 2009 12:18 PM #495210

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Haha, just kidding.

Is it immoral to try to extend human life through medicine?

NO absolutely not. I don't think I even need to back it up, mainly because I suddenly need to take a shit brb