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Oh come on, now you're changing the terms. I've never heard anybody wanting a war on the measurement of aging.

It's the human bodily degeneration and weakness, physical and mental, that results from the biological processes of life running for tens of years that's the undesirable part. Commonly known as "old age" and "aging".



>> The age of something is simply the measurement of elapsed time

>now you're changing the terms.

Ambiguous use of terminology (e.g. age defined one way vs. age defined another way) is equivocation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation_fallacy

May I suggest the term senescence, or biological senescence, be used instead of the term age? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senescence




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