Too much of a good thing is bad. Therefore living too long is bad. Yes, it's Leon Kass again, and Classical Values is all over him.
After 80 years, please surrender the remainder of your life to Kass -- it's For Your Own Good, after all. Extra life may well endanger your immortal soul. To my long list of complaints against the man, I will add that he recently turned sixty-five years old and is still living and lecturing us that attempting to prolong life beyond "normal limits" is immoral. As Dr. Kass is no doubt aware in his more lucid moments, living to sixty-five is not bloody normal by any standard except that allowed by modern medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By what rights he presumes to dictate that the raising the mean lifespan from approximately 35 in the wild to 77 in the modern world is fine*, but extending it to 120 or 160 or 300 would be grave heresy, I should like to know.
*It's possible he doesn't approve even of this, in which case I don't know why anyone listens to him.
Posted by laura at March 7, 2004 10:11 AM | TrackBack