Well, wanting to accept it and having to accept it are two very different things.
The age of something is simply the measurement of elapsed time since something came into its present configuration. A 'war on aging' makes as much sense as a war on pi or a war on stone, aging is a simple fact, easily observed and unavoidable.
> The age of something is simply the measurement of elapsed time since something came into its present configuration. A 'war on aging' makes as much sense as
The war under discussion is a war on aging, definable as biologically senescencing, rather than a war on simply existing-over-time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senescence
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 since something came into its present configuration. A 'war on aging' makes as much sense as a war on pi or a war on stone, aging is a simple fact, easily observed and unavoidable.