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I don't think anyone's willing to fight a war just to prevent another country's life expectancy from increasing.
Maybe, but on the other hand there is inequity aversion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequity_aversion
Also there is the possibility of fighting over the resources to use that technology (either within society or without). Do you disagree with the general idea that without greater rationality extreme longevity will not necessarily be beneficial or do you only disagree with the example?
That sounds more like something that would motivate the side that's not already long-lived. They'd already have plenty of motivation. I'm saying the country that has access to the tech but wants to restrict is isn't going to have the will to fight.
Well, "not necessarily be beneficial" strictly means "is not certain to be beneficial", but connotationally means "is likely enough to prove not-beneficial that we shouldn't do it", so I ADBOC - it's conceivable that it could go wrong, but I think it's likely enough to have a beneficial enough outcome that we should do it anyway.
yes and that was the meaning of my initial comment, and that is a concern in today's world where we do have limited resources so that not everyone would be able to make use of such a technology. The country that has it (or the subset of people that have it within one country) will be motivated to defend their resources necessary to use it., This isn't an argument against such research in a world without any scarcity, but that isn't our world.
I am still not sure whether it is likely to be more beneficial or not for heavily emotional and biased humans like us.