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Chapter 90: Roles, Pt 1
Nat Tardis60

I find it hilarious to think just how many catastrophies could be avoided by wizards just having cellphones.

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Chapter 39: Pretending to be Wise, Pt 1
Nat Tardis60

I don't think love is a consequence of wisdom at all. Love and wisdom are two completely separate things. Love is a chemical reaction in the brain that supports reproduction and the protection of your offspring. Wisdom does not cause it at all. Any fool can love as strongly as the wisest man alive.


I do agree that death is not something to be feared, in the current state of affairs. It is still inevitable, and to fear the inevitable is foolish. Avoidable death should be feared, but death from old age shouldn't. As for how immortality would turn ou... (read more)

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It seems to me like you guys are equating "natural death is no longer a thing" with "death and suffering are also no longer a thing". People commit suicide every day, and they have suffered for mere years or decades. Imagine all the trauma and suffering you could accumulate in centuries. It only takes to make the decision once, and it is final.  If someone is perfectly happy for 279 years and then they get a streak of bad luck for 2 years (say, a war), that may very well be too much suffering for their untrained mind, and they may want to just switch it off. How many outlived friends/daughters/true loves would it take to make you at least consider it? I'm not saying I'd do it, just that it probably wouldn't be that rare, given that there's probably no possible cure for non-natural death.