no, aging is not a disease. Also, even if we define it as such, the problem will be the uneven availability of that cure, because billionaires will hog it. Can't have 8+ billion immortals. Who also keep producing more immortals. Therefore the tech would be kept a close guarded secret only serving the 0.00001%

The secret weapon is crime

The harm to the people connected to the user, if you remove monetary aspects, is mostly grief about their loved one's condition. Not physical harm (usually).

OTOH I don't think addiction is an illness. It is a consequence of a poor decision which is hard to undo. Nobody is born an addict (unless your mother was a heavy addict too), and there's no addiction germ. That said, consequences of a bad decision should be treated, not criminalized. If I decide to put my legs in the wood chipper, that's a bad decision and I and my family will suffer from it. And I need medical treatment, not jail.

Better yet, use them as medical research subjects. At least give them the choice between that or the G sharp.

That's totally not what I am saying.

The experience of the last decade or so has been that in a lot of cases where there was smoke there was fire. I remember laughing at nutjobs who claimed the rich and powerful are participating in pedophiliac orgies. That a surveillance state is being built out. That insider trading is frequent. That oil companies suppress climate research. Etcetera.

Nitrogen (through ammonia) can be, but potassium and phosphorus can only be recovered (with difficulty).

Yes. Military research is outside (and above) civilian research.

I can't, and it will sound like conteo, but Trump likely suffered a couple of strokes and he's brought back to a reasonably active state every time. I don't know what happened to Mitch McConnell, but it is probably very close to necromancy. Treatment like this doesn't really exist for the regular population. If you get a stroke, you're out of action for at least several months, probably never to come back as you were before, ever.

Don't trust big government, and don't trust any system that forms a tree structure with a single central person at the top.

Truly decentralized small governments (millions of micronations) have the chance to be trustworthy. (They can still be cancerous, but at least they have the chance to not be that.)

No, of course my criticism was pointed at the existence of the inequality, not at the importance of medical research. Realistically however this is exactly how it goes down: billionaires will hoard the new cures, partly because they will be expensive, partly as a status symbol. For the latter, they will actively prevent it from reaching the masses, as long as they can, otherwise it stops being a status symbol.

Immortal evil billionaires is what the world needs.