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Old 03-26-2010, 12:51 PM   #48 (permalink)
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I think I'll trust the word of several professors and several text books over yours (and pop articles...) While the Tarahumara can have long lifespans they aren't perfect, and are more of a lucky glitch in our history. You also fail to mention (again) that the Tarahumara have a crazy high infant mortality rate. So that while some can live to a ripe old age, on the average they are worse off than most of us. They are also practically being wiped out by drug cartels.

Even if the stats were more favorable it does not mean your system works just because it may have for a small select group of people for several hundred years. You're talking about implementing something that requires hundreds of thousands of years, or however long our race is to last.

Which brings up another point. We cannot have space exploration under your system. It is extremely expensive. Which vastly limits our race's lifespan if we cannot move to other planets some day.

You're refusing to look at human nature. While I'd love to live like you suggest, it is both flawed and unrealistic. I don't know why you think the mafias and dictators and cartels would change their ways. It's like saying, "If only every single human would become wise and reasonable the world would be a better place!" Well no duh. It's not going to happen no matter how much you explain a "perfect" system. At least not anytime soon.

You seem to think that "evil" humans invented the current way of life and have "forgotten" how to live peacefully and wisely. That's like saying humans invented murder and war which is just bullshit. Animals go to war with each other all the time. They murder each other for resources or mating privileges just as humans have for thousands of years. It ain't gonna suddenly change.
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