In an earlier blog entry, I presented my reconstruction of an argument, developed by Aubrey de Grey, that attempts to demonstrate the existence of a moral obligation to fund radical anti-aging research, i.e. research aimed “curing” the human aging process. In this entry, I’m going to identify a problem for the argument, and I’ll then comment on the implications. I also think that there’s an additional problem, but I’ll merely mention it, and leave it for later time.
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