What would the world be like if nobody aged?

bb1234567

Say hypothetically we had some kind of surgery or whatever that made you look as young as you want for your whole life. So your old grandmother could look like a present day teenager for instance, you and your mother could look like sisters, and you could never tell what age somebody was when you meet them. Could be 18 could be 80.
Would you like if the world was like that? why/why not

Sh1tbag OToole

Be mighty. Everyone could spend the whole day running through the playground and we could shut down this whole "economy" thing and nobody would have to put up with the everyday hummadum-drum of the daily modern working morning office life

eamonnq

If me and my mother looked like sisters I would be a bit concerned !!

bb1234567

eamonnq wrote: »

If me and my mother looked like sisters I would be a bit concerned !!

Yeh thats what I mean its a mind **** for us, ageing is such a big aspect of society. Standards placed on certain age groups, what if a school principal looked the same age as the pupils for instance? Its crazy to think about, and with anti ageing procedures being so popular and medicine advances its sure to happen some time in the future

edit: just realised you meant itd be concering because youre a man (guessing by your username..ahah)

It would be very, very, crowded.

bb1234567

Candie wrote: »

It would be very, very, crowded.

Oh no I mean just not ageing from outward appearances only. Like life expectancy stays the same, we all die at around 80-90 but just we look the exact same throughout our lives, lookin fresh out of puberty til the day you kick it

Then it would be very, very, confusing.

andekwarhola

I keep picturing Crystal Swing for some reason.

And that's not good.

andekwarhola

andekwarhola wrote: »

I keep picturing Crystal Swing for some reason.

And that's not good.

Is that something I don't want to have in my search history?

Donald Trump

eamonnq wrote: »

If me and my mother looked like sisters I would be a bit concerned !!

Reminds me of few of those "documentaries" that I've seen online



Giggidy



(Edit: given that your name appears to be Eamonn......)

andekwarhola

Candie wrote: »

Is that something I don't want to have in my search history?

It's something that should not exist in history, full stop.







It's safe to search.

Starscream25

So.... Do you come here often?
Ya for the last 80 years or so give or take.

andekwarhola

andekwarhola wrote: »

It's something that should not exist in history, full stop.

It's safe to search.

I searched, but lack both the context and the will to explore it. I'll take your word for it, as I guess it's one of those things you have to be Irish to understand. Like Twink, hot presses, the 'good room', and sliced pans.

BorneTobyWilde

I'm actually 3489 years old
I was one of the last ever bitten by a vampire before they were made extinct .
Each and everyone was hunted and killed.

Samaris

Assuming that everyone does actually die at the end of their allotted period (bear in mind that with younger bodies, we'd live longer too. Not hugely much longer, but you could easily be breaking a lifespan of 110-120.), we wouldn't get some of the worse aspects of being eternal. It'd be best to keep potential reproduction lifespan about the same though, say, can only reproduce between the ages of 13ish (BIOLOGICALLY, I'm not recommending it!) and forty-ish. Else we could have a pregnancy boom that we couldn't entirely cope with due to the negatives down below.

Positives - less disease, lower morbidity (morbidity is a measure of your health, so to speak. Mortality - death, morbidity - health issues), Alzheimers, Parkinsons etcetera would presumably not be so much of an issue (actually, depending how you look at it, it could be a much worse issue, as the physical bodies would be fine, but the brain/nervous system degenerates towards end of life; that's just a natural progression. But say that's not an issue, can go with that in this hypothetical).

Negatives - workforce chaos. Older people kept in the workforce longer, as they can theoretically work nearly to the end of their lives, which in a way, kinda sucks. Older people at the moment get to retire and (hopefully) live off their savings and pension, see the world a bit. Okay, that's idealised, but some can. Younger people then have a harder time getting into the workforce as the turnover slows. It would have to result in basically upending our social system to deal with it.

Er, am I putting too much thought into this?

The Backwards Man

In every small town in Ireland, the boys that leave school early become plasterers and the girls become beauticians.

If nobody aged we'd have a serious oversupply of construction workers.

Your Face

I may regret it but I'm not going to worry about it.

ScumLord

If you're saying there's some sort of surgery that makes people look outwardly young, then people would just learn to spot other signs of age and adjust. Looking old would probably then become cool and the fashion of looking young might go back to how it is now. All young people are looking for is viable genes, they'll find ways of singling out the genes they want.

If you're saying the aging process stops altogether, it would probably spell the end of human evolution and maybe life on earth, cells that won't die and can't be corrupted are usually bad, AKA cancer.

Capt'n Midnight

Candie wrote: »

It would be very, very, crowded.

nah,
we'd just have regular culls of the the poor and powerless

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Like age of adeline? I'd like that but you'd have your heart broken a lot.