Chu Ge couldn't figure out this question.

Dr. Li Xinlian looked at him with sarcastic eyes and sneered: "I have said so much, but you still don't understand, you haven't seriously thought about the significance of the appearance of the 'Eternal Man' in this world, what a strong storm it will set off, and where will it lead our civilization - whether it will lead us to create an unprecedented glorious era, or will the entire earth become a Shura hell with a sea of corpses and blood."

"So, please rack every drop of your brain from now on and think carefully about this question.

"You must know that our entire human civilization on Earth, our social formation, technological development, and natural moral laws are all based on the premise that 'man always has to die'.

"It is precisely because 'man always dies' that the chiefs, kings, presidents and leaders were able to violently suppress the vast majority of the people and build a strong nation.

"It is precisely because 'man always has to die' that in order to give a comforting answer to the fate after death, human beings have deceived themselves into inventing so many religions, and even evolved different nations, kingdoms and camps around these religions.

"It is precisely because 'man always dies' that the law has enough deterrent power to deprive a person, whether it is the death penalty or imprisonment, directly or indirectly, of all or part of life, and life, which is the most precious, above all else, cannot be measured by any equivalent.

"It is precisely because of 'people always have to die' that we have formed a variety of tacit understandings called 'morality', in most moral systems, endangering the lives of others is always immoral, and helping others get rid of the threat of death is always noble, we praise heroes but attack villains, heroes are often 'not afraid of sacrifice, sacrifice life and forget death', and villains are often associated with 'greedy for life and afraid of death'.

"Even, it is precisely because 'people always have to die', and our selfish genes have a strong urge to replicate and spread, that we will become interested in the opposite sex, willing to give up our own enjoyment, to bear unnecessary toil, to take unnecessary risks, just to raise the cubs, and the cubs of the cubs, so that our genes can be passed on forever.

"See, everything about human civilization, even the very definition of 'human,' is based on the indestructible truth that the individual must perish.

"Once truth ceases to be truth, can the two concepts of humanity and civilization, remain unchanged?"

Chu Ge fell into deep thought.

He had never thought about such a ridiculous question.

Because "man is inherently dead" and "sunrise and sunset" are both natural and eternal things.

"Mankind will gain eternal life" is as much a game of worrying as "the sun will not rise again".

Can ...... now

"The simplest consequence, you know, since human civilization entered the era of industrialization, as the problem of famine has been solved, medical technology has been greatly improved, and there has gradually been a population explosion, but the fertility rate has been decreasing."

Dr. Li Xinlian said, "Unlike the ancients, who cared about the family and the afterlife, modern people pay more attention to their own enjoyment in this world, if it is not for the continuation of genes, many people are not willing to have children at all, even if they want to have children, at most one or two, few people will have three or five or seven children like the ancients."

"In the case of genes that need to be continued, the fertility rate is so low, then, if human beings can really achieve 'eternal life', in other words, there is no need to give birth to a new generation, and human genes can continue forever, at this time, how many people will be willing to pay for their children forever, will the concept of family still exist, and to what extent will the fertility rate plummet?"

This is indeed a problem.

Chu Ge was just in his early twenties, far from the age to think about his children.

But through the examples of his mother and Aunt Bai, he can also know that raising children is too hard, especially raising children like him and Xu Jun.

And if you don't need children, your wife seems to be a dispensable thing.

In recent years, with the explosion of technology and information, people's desires have also exploded, and both men and women have become more and more demanding of the opposite sex.

Anyway, the entertainment industry is so developed, there are plenty of ways for single men and women to kill time and vent their desires, if everyone is immortal, they don't need to raise children to continue their genes, what are they doing with a family?

Wait, if you think about it again, many people work hard just to support their wives and children, if the family and offspring are unnecessary things, it seems that struggle itself is no longer a necessity - why do anything "ninety-nine-six", fight like chicken blood, just work hard, you can't starve to death anyway!

Thinking about it this way, it seems to be a very serious problem that seven billion people on the earth have become immortal.

"By now you should understand what a major change we are facing, right? Perhaps, amber should not be called amber, but 'Pandora', the 'Pandora' of 'Pandora's Box'. ”

Dr. Li continued, "Extending the concept of 'family' to the level of 'state', what if the rationality and necessity of the family are in jeopardy under the impact of 'immortality'?

"It's the same thing.

"Why are the heroes who built and defended a country willing to sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths? It is because they know that their sacrifice can make their genes live on in their bloodline; More because they know that people are inherently dead, not at this moment, but also at a certain day in a few decades, and what they pay is nothing more than decades.

"But what if their genes don't need offspring to continue, as long as they choose to live in secret, they can live hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years more?

"On the other hand, why would an ambitious soldier willingly obey the orders of the general? Because he knows that no matter how powerful the general is, he will eventually grow old and die, as long as the soldier works hard enough, he can change from a squad leader to a company commander, from a company commander to a battalion commander, a regiment commander, a brigade commander, a division commander, and a military commander.

"But what if the old general never dies?

"The old general will never die, or even never grow old, he will always occupy the position of the general, and the soldiers under him will never come out, how can the soldiers muster the motivation to fight?

"This is true of the military, and the same is true of the people, if the authority of the old people, the rich, and the academic community will never die, they will always be able to steal high positions, occupy the vast majority of resources, and pull the advantage between them and ordinary people, bigger and bigger, ordinary people will never come out!

"'All men are created equal', what a great and moving declaration, but it is a pity that in the nearly 10,000-year history of human civilization, this declaration has never really been realized for even a second, appearance, health, wisdom, luck, wealth...... Every human being is never equal from birth, and it is impossible to change this inequality throughout his life.

"Only one thing is fair.

"Only one thing, unhindered by wealth, appearance, religion, and power, befalls every man, woman, poor, or creed.

"That's death.

"Even if a super-rich man like my father drops hundreds of millions, billions, at most, he can only delay the pace of death for a few years, and he will still face the verdict of death in the end.

And many old farmers in the mountain towns who are so poor that they can live longer than him comfortably and easily.

"Death is the only equality.

"Death is the bottom line.

"It is by virtue of the equality of death that humanity can barely tolerate all other inequalities.

"'So-and-so is more handsome than me, richer than me, more famous than me, more successful than me, and can make billions, tens of billions, so what? Sooner or later, everyone is going to get old and die, maybe I can live a few more years than him', it is this kind of thinking that supports the vast majority of ordinary people to grit their teeth and endure a boring and difficult life, watching those brightly dressed and successful people on the Internet, but they are holding on to their spirits not to collapse.

"Death is like a strong dam or a pro-bodi, suppressing man's ugliest desires and most tyrannical impulses.

"Once the levee collapses and the beast in the hearts of all mankind comes out, what will it look like?"