You all can run but you cannot hide.
I am older and I am the competition. I am used to it.
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As an example I enlisted into the military at 34, the upper legal limit. I found I had enormous advantages against my younger cohorts both in terms of mind and body, certainly in respect to the will and stamina.
You all will become used to the competition too.
That is the case or you will fail to compete and die off.
Who are we, dinosaurs?
Did we ever become extinct?
You can just look in the mirror to recognize a fellow hatchling.
So who is afraid of a little competition and what constitutes unfair advantage?
A gun was understood as the great equalizer because it gave every individual the ability to kill indiscriminately. That is until we developed Weapons of Mass Destruction that gave the individual an advantage against the majority. And you folks are only worried about a little physical enhancement. Any particular part you want enhanced, biceps, triceps, penis, or breast?
Oh yes, a few of the more rational ones ask for *mental enhancements*.
Whatever that means?
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I want a solar collecting skin enhanced by nanotech with re-breather and heat retention ability for amphibious marine habitat. Do you think Orca will be offended by the unfair advantages of human tech?
Any more offended that is, than by our wanton destruction of the greater percentage of their habitat and populations now?
So you want affirmative action for the Neo Cambrian Expansion?
Are we going to enhance the handicapping of athletes or create categories of user and non user like Major and Minor Leagues?
Enhancement is a part of what human technology means, it is the part that somehow gets overlooked in its obviousness and it is the part that has always been at the forefront of human advance (a word rooted in advantage). It is what is at the core of most ethical analysis of this question since mythic prehistoric times. We don't define the eras of human progress by the amount and quality of the metals smelted for nothing, by the quality of weaving and spear points, or by the engineering complexity of habitat models a society develops. We, as tool makers have been changing the rules of our survival for over a million years, since long before Cro-Magnon and long enough for the behavioral adaptation to incorporate itself into our genes. So do some of us resonate the *machine gene*?
Cyborgs are Us.
But does this approach also legitimize discrimination as well; a form of enforced *equalization of competition*?
The *Competition between Age Groups* will look a little different as each generation sets new records for longevity, it will reflect our social evolution as well as physical. There are some aspects that will require an enormous respect and tolerance IMO for the competition to not turn hostile and destructively manipulative.
