Longevity drugs are available to all, but on the condition that recipients never have children, and those born illegally are confined to institutions, testing whether immortality is worth the sacrifice of reproduction.
Models the population ethics of radical life extension: directly relevant to longevity research implications, the tension between individual immortality and species renewal.
Domains: Medicine and Human EnhancementGovernance and Political SystemsEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyEthical dilemma
Outcomes: DystopianCautionary
Tags: immortality-conditionchild-prohibitionlongevity-tradeoff