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23 Post author: shminux 18 September 2013 04:49PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 September 2013 05:34:45PM 0 points [-]

There are a lot of diseases which are different enough from aging to make the distinction more than a social construct: infectious diseases, congenital abnormalities, etc.

But yes, you can say: this is the ideal stable state, I want to maintain it forever, whatever causes it break, be it disease or aging, is bad and we want to fix that. Sure.