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I'm going to bring up the classic Aubrey de Grey response, which actually works for all of these issues, but I think this one in particular. Yes, there will be problems if we live a much longer time. Yes, they will be very big problems. No, we don't even know what those problems will even be. But those problems will pale in comparison to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people every day.
Yup, there's ginormous status quo bias going on here. If we lived in a world stretched to the limit for resources, where policy is impossible because everyone is a bigoted moral fossil and the few sane leaders left have no clue what they're doing because it's all so new, and you proposed "Hey, I know! Let's kill everyone over 80!"... everyone would just stare and ask "Have you been reading Pebble in the sky again?".
I think that's the hand-waving the OP was talking about.
How is this hand-waving?