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> 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

You are committing the fallacy of equivocation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation_fallacy

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

Please also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466749



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