In 2002 Maureen McHugh gave a brief, in science-fiction form, against the Fountain Of Youth. McHugh was talking about economics and young male involuntary-celibacy.
Edward Dutton will add to that, the Mouse Utopia. This showed that Malthus was wrong, if applied to rodents (who are, I think, more closely related to primates than either are to, say, deer). When mice are freed from all care and want, they do not simply starve. Instead, they get androgynous: females get more aggressive and males get effeminate. If there's no upside to breeding, why bother.
Elon Musk offers a new argument: history of philosophy. Musk holds that death allows for old ideas either to die with the old people, or else to try their luck with the next generation.
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