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Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don't you see the wrinkles?

This is a brilliant description; the feeling OP has is probably on a way more abstract level than most of the comments here are thinking of.

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If you have a whiteboard marker, you can draw over it and then erase it. Works wonders.

Well it's mostly that at least a certain group with disabilities has access to a way out when life is too harsh. It is to limit unneeded suffering. A respectful way to end one's life should be available to everyone, but that is a hard pill to swallow for many neurotypical / religious people. So it gets limited to a certain group, and then they use that compromise as an argument..

You don't decide whether you are born, at least let us have more control over our own death. In a progression of our human civilization, this should count for everyone.

Framing this in a bad way is exactly what some conservative politicians and media want.

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And things in itself that are too small to see with even a microscope do not reflect light right? Light might interact there but will not reflect in the usual sense, it can however emit light though. As far as I understand that is.

Interesting video, thanks. I think the main point is that most (historical) data has a lot of gaps and wrong interpretations / extrapolation. People like Pinker seem to (perhaps just ignorantly) somewhat cherry pick data and use it as an argument for their optimistic statement.