If you could steal 1 year of life from everyone on the planet, would you do it?

So, essentially, I'd be killing people who's has a year, or less on their life meter?

Umm, no.

Nah, not worth it.

How is killing someone who only has a year left any different from taking a year off of someone who has more?

What do you mean by steal one year. Do they become younger or older?

@comicace3: They die one year sooner.

That would mean your lifespan would increase to 7.5 billion years.

Even taking one second of everyone's life would increase your lifespan by 238 years.

Nah. There's no way you'd be able to fly under the radar with a lifespan that large, and eventually you can bet that the government (or someone else) would come for you to 'learn' the secret behind your long life.

@zetsumoto: Then nah. Not really.

@Zetsumoto: Actually, I wouldn't do it regardless - but knowing I instantly took thousands of lives at once only makes it worse.

nope, living that long becomes a curse. A video game quote comes to mind in this situation.

• "Death is rest for the soul. Who was it who said that? If the body did not die, and the fears borne in the mind just continued to pile up, the world would be nothing more than an eternal prison."—Ziggy

MMmmmmno.

This would murder many thousands if not millions. Also living so much would mean that I would be stuck on earth billions of years after human extinction in a inhabitable planet.

Sounds too much like hell to me.

Apparently on average 55.3 million people die a year. Or, there's that many people at the moment with a lifespan of under a year. That's more people than the amount who died during the black death, the spanish flu, and around 9 times more than the highest estimates of the death toll of the Holocaust. Heck, it's only 5 or so million less than the entire death toll of WW2, and you'd be doing it single handidly.

Nah, that sounds boring.

I couldn't. I'm a guilty coward.

I thought that it'd been established that that kind of longevity isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Are we assuming that someone who has a year or less is going to die of natural causes, or is it just anyone who is going to wind up dead during the next year?

@amendment50: Natural causes.

Oh God no! Why the hell would I want to prolong my miserable existence.

thats dope af

From everyone? No.

5 points to anyone who can name that reference without google.

@staticdwanyemcduffie: yeah xenosaga has some great lines. Here's the scene in question.

@erik_soong would.

Isn't the sun giving up in about that time? Even if the rest of those years are all awesome, I'd hate to be stranded alone on a torturous, uninhabitable planet for any amount of time.

Who wants to live 6 billion years? That's older than the planet itself.

Definitely not. You'd be the worst monster that ever lived.

No because that's mean >:(

Nope. I would steal an hour from everyone though (under the age of 65, making me live 750,000-800,000 years).

This is a difficult situation. The only problem is would the human race survive for that long? Would the earthbeven be around that lon? I dont think i would do it. It would be a good debate against myself to do it, but i would not steal one whole year from all.

No. Every person means billions, meaning billions of years added to your lifespan.

Only if I could have the youth to back up living for that long

This. Plus since they all die from natural causes as per OP, means the person would still grow old enough to just die from natural cause of death...getting too old. Plus who really wants to live to an age, where they can't do really anything and can have their bodies easily broken?

If youth is backed up for living that long, then yeah...I'd go for it. But if I age to the point where I can easily break a bone or start losing my mind, then yeah....no.

That means I'll live to see the world get obliterated by the sun. Hell no.

@wolfrazer: that was exactly my thought.

Bruce Willis actually starred in a role with almost the same stipulations (eternal life w/o eternal youth) called "Death Becomes Her", it's actually realllly funny & the only movie i've seen him in where people aren't getting shot & things aren't blowing up.

Still a masterpiece & if you like Bruce at all I highly recommend it; goldie hawn and meryl streep are perfect co-stars in it as well.

No. This is essentially murder.

Just one?

Nope

There are infants born with congenital diseases that would kill them before they're even a couple of years old.

So no, I wouldn't want to be a disabled-baby-murderer.

Tempting, but no

Wut?

I'd assume we'd figure out space-travel or something by then.

Eh... probably depending on the details.

like am I shaving away from the populations max lifespan or am I shaving away 1 year from when they would have died.

Would I just be immortal for said time period or is this just a lifespan increase?

@thekillerklok: 1 year from when they would have died (not counting accidents)

Just a lifespan increase.

@zetsumoto: That makes taking over the world a bit more difficult, but I'm patient.

I say no. And not for the obvious moral reason. A person doesn't have any code to handle way beyond average lifespans. Now the truly ambitious or highly imaginative could stretch their existence a good sight beyond the average. But I think even the most lively of us would eventually succumb to boredom, loneliness, cynicism, a just general malaise and apathy. We're talking 7 billion years here, you would likely witness the death of the sun and by default the Earth. The only defense against falling into any fatal rut the human psyche might slip into is to drive yourself into sweet oblivious insanity. Before the facts of life become unbearable horrors.

I know I wouldn't want to live beyond my natural life span. I hate you all more than is healthy now.

> Steals 1 year from everyone on the planet.

> Immediately slips on a banana peel, fall on the ground and breaks the neck.

@jucaslucasa: Sounds like crap that would happen to me. Except it would be my own damn banana peel and I would not get to embrace sweet oblivion right then. Noooo, the universe would see fit that I retained all cognitive function, sans a functioning body now.

No, but not because of the effects on other people, I just have no desire to live that long.