Without death we cannot truly have life. As such, what a travesty of life it would be to achieve a machine-like immortality!
Gray writes the following chilling lines: “If you understand that in wanting to live for ever you are trying to preserve a lifeless image of yourself, you may not want to be resurrected or to survive in a post-mortem paradise.What could be more deadly than being unable to die?” (my emphasis)
Why do these people go out of their way to justify other people dying? It clearly signals you as an existential threat, and indeed, one particularly vicious to intelligences on non-biological substrates. You might as well go on an armed rampage.
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Sounds like sour grapes. I'd heard of people holding such sentiments; this is the first time I've actually seen them expressed myself.