• Question: If you found a gene which could cause immortality, do you think this would be a good thing or a bad thing for mankind and science?

    Asked by timrichards to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I think this would be bad. People would lose interest in the world around them, because they’d think they’d live forever anyway. Also, people would probably lose respect for eachother.

    • Photo: Kay Penicud

      Kay Penicud answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      I think maybe a bad thing – I think maybe if we all lived forever yet had kids and they had kids and they had kids etc we’d probably run out of space to live, and food to eat, and water to drink etc

    • Photo: Olivia Hibbitt

      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 19 Mar 2010:

      Hi Timrichards,

      well the planet is pretty overpopulated as it is if we were immortal, yet all of us still had 2.4 kids that would be very bad for the planet!!!! It would also depend on the kind of immortality it produced, would you stay young and healthy or age? If you just kept getting older and older and sicker that would not be a great thing!

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