It is worth noting, I think, that absolutely *everyone* has something to hide... Even if only from people who might abuse such knowledge.

And that even *if* the government were compltely trustworthy (and I do not allege that they are, but hypothetically,even if they were), if they can see your confidential information, then it is theoretically also possible for someone with less noble intentions to do so as well, and if they exploit it before they are caught, the damage can sometimes be utterly irreparable.

I know... It'll be done when it's done, but I needed to vent a little.

Studying crime in VR.... wasn't that something they were doing in the exposition of that film?

a little while after meeting you they kind of distance themselves, they get a weird kinda awe-inspired respect for you

If the tone of your post is any indication of what you are like in person, I believe that you may be entirely wrong, almost to the point of being polar opposite to reality, about their intentions about why they distance themselves... .

total lifespan is still limited by other factorsLike what, exactly? If you can cure aging, then by extension, diseases that are induced by aging should also be eradicated. That just leaves dying by diseases where survivability is *not* significantly connected to how old someone is, death by accident, or else homicide.

In other words, some 70% of the reasons that people die will be eliminated. It is effectively immortality.

Many of the diseases that predominantly affect the older generations often arise not simply because of the passage of time, but as a consequence of the aging process itself... That is not to say that aging is necessarily the sole cause, but it is extremely obvious that declining health as one ages plays a very large factor. If certain medical treatments existed to genuinely halt or even reverse the effects of aging, then one's overall health would be expected to remain at otherwise "youthful" levels (in fact, if it did not, then the treatment doesn't actually do anything), and people would not tend to die from illnesses that are typically associated with declining healthy levels as one ages any more than people who have otherwise lived only to a relatively young age already do.

You don't seriously think the that rich and the elite wouldn't bend the rules for their own families do you?

Or do you really think that unwanted pregnancies only ever happen to the less wealthy?

Some morbidly obese people would no longer necessarily continue to be morbidly obese... since some weight gain can be caused simply by a slowing metabolism associated with aging. If the aging process can be reversed, then some fat people may eventually be able to become skinny again, without even necessarily any significant change in their diet or lifestyle, since no such change is necessarily required to become fat in the first place.

The logistics of trying to hava a mandatory vasagel procedure on every single male that reaches puberty is so outside of the realm of what is practicable that you should not need to consider it for more than a moment to realize that it would not be effective.

Oh, and of course there isn't any chance at all that such rules won't get broken.... and over time, get broken with increasing regularity until such point in time that nobody even really pays attention to the rule.

I would think also that there would be no small number of kids born simply because... well... accidents happen, and the parents do not want to simply terminate a pregnancy on the grounds that having it amounts to what is just a large inconvenience for them.

I would suspect that there is a very sizable percentage of the world's population that would not exist if people only ever had children when they intended to.,

I see that as less of an issue over measures that may be morally reprehensible than a matter of measures that are not seriously likely to ever prove to be actually effective.

I sincerely believe that is one bridge that is best to cross when you actually get to it... worrying about something like this is liable to only keep you from enjoying the life that you have, here and now.

For employee monitoring, you don't require face recognition... presumably, the company knows who its own employees are. The purpose of the monitoring is not to catch people they don't know, it would be to be able to ensure that people that they *DO* know are doing their jobs properly.

One would think that if one were liable to want to use such info for criminal purposes, that one would tend to be reasonably expeditious about it, since the more time elapses while you are trying to use that information, the greater the chance that you will be discovered. The reality is, however, that there's a whole heaping mountain of red tape that even someone who has genuinely lost their wallet will have to go through just to prove their identity in today's society, and if you lose your wallet within about one year or so of having moved, and nobody has your current address on record yet, you can wind up completely screwed for months. I can't imagine that in practice, it would generally be possible for someone else to do anything useful with such minimal info.