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As a species we're not ready for immortality or significant life extension.

Focusing on this problem before solving the many inequities of our societies is selfish. Hypothetically if a powerful person were to use such a treatment they should be assassinated lest they become an undying tyrant.

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We can work on more than one problem at once, and the people working on this problem might not be the best for the other problems.

You wouldn't ask your electrician to put his tools down until the mechanic was finished working on your car.

The rest of your statement is absurd.

I doubt there are many who are specialized they can only work on life extension research and not other areas of science or medicine.

I think a more apt analogy would be asking a Rolls Royce mechanic to stop and come work on fixing the public's broken down busses.

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