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Young people do not universally feel immortal; threatened adolescents often overestimate their chance of dying. What turns a shortened horizon into presence rather than fatalism is not age or civilization, but agency.
This analysis explores how civilizations manage inherent inequalities from a "biological lottery." It contrasts India's "attribute repression" with the West's "attribute commodification," arguing the latter risks a "terminal civilization" due to extreme individual autonomy.
The oldest argument in human rights is whether universal standards can be applied to particular cultures. Egypt is the case where we can check. Prohibition plus medical authority did not end the practice — it relocated it, and gave it a safety justification it did not have before.
