After watching the third episode: Is childbirth private or selfish?

This episode depicts fertility as a legitimate human nature, but depicts the society of immortality as cold, cruel, and dehumanizing. Immortality is also a human desire. When technology can satisfy this desire, it is first of all progress. If the film can do some in-depth thinking on this immortal society, such as people's excessive pursuit of immortality, breaking the original social relations, crazy pursuit of mastering this technology, social differentiation will intensify, and the greed of human nature will expand infinitely, bringing war, etc. But in this story, the immortal society is very stable, and it seems to have overcome these problems we can think of, but it implies that the stability of the society is maintained by killing those who choose to have children.

Does childbirth necessarily cause problems for them? Once people choose to have children, they will no longer receive longevity treatment, and then they will die of old age. If a pair of fertile people has two children, it does not seem to cause population expansion. Besides, if the whole group chooses longevity and the price of infertility is also recognized by all, then those who give birth will know the law and break the law. The regulations stipulate the death penalty for those who give birth. When they make a decision, they know what it means. The decision to give birth already means death, it's just the difference between dying early and dying later. Nor do we particularly sympathize with these slain reproductives.

In previous stories, immortal people are basically strange, lonely, and lonely, because we look at them with ordinary human life patterns, our birth, old age, sickness and death are meaningful, and our genetic continuation is also meaningful. To be immortal is to fall into nothingness. But the longevity society is just the opposite. People who give birth are nothing. If their children survive, they will yearn for their families, continue to have children, and even oppose the rule of the longevity society. People will start the cycle of life and death again. This may be more of a headache for them than population expansion. The longevity society had to spare no effort to contain it. In addition to killing those who gave birth, they also killed children.

Is it reasonable that a group system can only satisfy one kind of human desire and forcefully ignore another? Is it possible to let those who choose longevity live long and those who choose to reproduce? If this is not possible, how can such a stable longevity society be achieved? But unfortunately, this short film just created the opposition between longevity and fertility, and let the protagonist make a choice of human nature and morality that is loyal to the current reality.

That's where it's not convincing enough, turning the complex myth of future survival into a simple opposition between being and not being born. Even in reality, people don't live forever, and not everyone wants to have children. It naturally believes that as long as the awareness of fertility returns, it will definitely become the mainstream, and the awareness of fertility will definitely return.

But how can it be seen? Under the premise of longevity to maintain social stability, most people have lost the moral requirements of continuing offspring, there is no birth, old age, sickness and death, and there is no pain in life that we can think of. Childbirth is not out of any consideration for the future, but love and love. Like a very personal preference. However, the plausible birther in the film is all based on the "selfish" ideas that arise in our real society. She feels that having a child brings hope to life. Please, your life has endless time and hope. If you can't find hope in life, what hope do you expect your children to find? Do you want him to hide and be hunted down with you? Or do you want him to live like you until he doesn't know how to continue his life? And you are not happy when time is infinite, and you are happy when time is limited. It is not a problem of time, it is your problem.

Realistically, I feel that childbirth is indeed a selfish thing. As a woman, I can't think of a reason to give birth to nothing. For the family, for the parents, for the elderly, for the purpose of life, for the motivation to struggle. But in the far future, whether it's story or reality, it would be nice if childbirth became more of a private matter.