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thesquanderer

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10. The downside of longer lives

Sat Mar 29, 2014, 01:10 AM

Mar 2014

Okay, I think we can all agree, living longer is a good thing. But if you're going to look at the economic benefits of these scenarios which include living longer, there is an economic cost to taking care of people who live further into old age as well, and I wonder if that's been considered here, as they are actually making an economic (rather than strictly humanitarian) argument.

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The Side Effect Of Birth Control No One Talks About [View all] eridani Mar 2014 OP

Excellent. This was posted in February: ProSense Mar 2014 #1

Thank you for this post. CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #2

And yet the SCOTUS Conservatives say not having contraception is not that big a burden on women. SunSeeker Mar 2014 #3

K and R!!!! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2014 #4

I don't get why so many are opposed to birth control. alarimer Mar 2014 #5

The goal is to have women barefoot, pregnant, uneducated, and LuvNewcastle Mar 2014 #6

Those are interim goals. It's women's suffrage they want. Scuba Mar 2014 #15

Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate. progressoid Mar 2014 #14

K & R mountain grammy Mar 2014 #7

K&R cprise Mar 2014 #8

Birth control is an issue for Women AND Men BrotherIvan Mar 2014 #9

The downside of longer lives thesquanderer Mar 2014 #10

And there are the benefits of older people keeping civil society alive eridani Mar 2014 #12

Reduced crime levels. nt obxhead Mar 2014 #11

^ Wilms Mar 2014 #13

Donor countries? Fair share? CFLDem Mar 2014 #16