Cure aging or give a small number of disabled people jobs as janitors – unary version.

Aubrey De Grey writes on Facebook:

Hi everyone,
After several days in the lead for the #sharetowin challenge, we've been overtaken by Los Angeles Habilitation House. They have a less radical agenda than ours, so it's no surprise that they're getting support, but I'd still prefer us to win $5000! Therefore, if you haven't yet commented, please do it now:
- go to http://bit.ly/sensf
- click the "comment" link
- comment!

The Share to Win competition describes itself as follows:

Share to Win is a fun contest we put together to help health, environment and education-related non-profit causes push the boundaries of the social internet to get people talking about them and to raise money for their mission.
We’re donating money to ||||| non-profits who can share a mission that resonates online. Just post information about a cause you care about as a note on |||banana, and then spread the word using email and social networks like Twitter or Facebook.
At the end of September, we will declare five winners: a $ ||||| k Grand Prize, a $2,000 Runner Up, and three Honorable Mentions of $ | k each. The Honorable Mentions will include one cause from each category: Health, Education, and Environment.
The causes that spread the most — as measured by online comments — can win donations from |||banana, while engaging supporters and recruiting new ones. It’s a win and a win. Simple as that.

And LA Habilitation House (LAHH) describes itself as follows:

Offering employment and career opportunities to persons with disabilities is our commitment at Los Angeles Habilitation House Inc. LAHH delivers contracted services in the janitorial and light duty industry.

A picture is appropriate at this stage:

Making ||||| disabled people's lives better today (LAHH claims to have successfully employed ||||| disabled people as of late last year) versus accelerating the cure of human aging - which causes
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deaths per day... from a utilitarian point of view, there is a clear winner here (as is hopefully obvious in this new unary system). But predictably, people vote based upon their emotional reactions, which are based upon tangible visual clues such as pictures of smiling disabled people proudly holding mops and buckets.

It is at times like this that I start to wonder whether the human race is worth saving at all. Then I remember that the human moral frame of reference is fundamental to every good thing that has ever happened to me, or will ever happen, and that even the concept of "being worth saving" is a human one.

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