Imagine a world where immortality is given to 1% of the populace per year such that in 100 years everyone is immortal, but it is given in order of decreasing wealth.
Now imagine a world in which no one is immortal for 99 years, but on the 100th year everyone gains immortality at once.
The latter is vastly more equitable, but to choose such a world would be horrific in cost of lives.
I can imagine the dystopia that would come from an undying elite ruling over a mortal underclass. However, in any situation short of that extreme, I would never promote anything that would slow the search for immortality. Especially not for the mere bog standard modern conception of equity; crab-bucket mentality here will only serve to keep us all scrabbling in the dirt.
Now imagine a world in which no one is immortal for 99 years, but on the 100th year everyone gains immortality at once.
The latter is vastly more equitable, but to choose such a world would be horrific in cost of lives.
I can imagine the dystopia that would come from an undying elite ruling over a mortal underclass. However, in any situation short of that extreme, I would never promote anything that would slow the search for immortality. Especially not for the mere bog standard modern conception of equity; crab-bucket mentality here will only serve to keep us all scrabbling in the dirt.