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May 15, 2012
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The worst would be the third generation; they would be a kid forever and never be able to do anything without the consent of their parents.
One of your funniest comics! You touch in on the real, inconvenient but definitely likely overwhelming social implications of this technology we all like to think will save "us".
I'm still terrified by the announcement some lab made years ago that claimed they had developed a drug that made sleep unnecessary - supposedly with no side effects, but they never said how long the study had been running, and sleep is the body's repair and maintenance cycle.
If that drug ever got out, it wouldn't mean more free time, because employers would expect us to work sixteen hours a day for the same pay we now make in eight to twelve. (cell phones were supposed to give us more free time, but they just make it easier for employers to put us on call)
When they invent the means to immortality, I definitely want to be safely dead.
...Dealing with the same people--FOREVER?!
Would there be a third generation? (Besides 1. The Rich, 2. The Necessary, 3. The Non-Unemployed.) If you're immortal, why have kids?
If the third generation gets immortaled when they are kids (and more likely you'd have the process when you are an adult), then, since their parents inevitably will split up eventually - say the chance of your relationship surviving any one year is 99 per cent, it's still Russian roulette (although strictly that is a game played with five bullets...) - then you're paying child support FOREVER. And so Immortal Generation 2 is still the Suck Generation.
On the other hand, since the Generation 3 kids are immortal, there is no reason for their parents not to consent to most of the things they want to do. Except borrow the car.
I've looked at your comments section for a while now. No trolls, no abuse, spelling approximately correct, no obscenities. Obviously I've connected with the comments section of another universe. Basic Instructions must be a quantum tunnel to an alternate reality.
Prove me wrong, I dare you.
Note from Scott: The quality of my comments section is just another way in which I am the luckiest guy I know.