discussion The age old question?

[TomHook]

It depends on what you mean by "count". Is the question one of fact or of morality? Factually speaking, the answer would be yes, time has passed while they are alive and as the situation is currently without precedent that time would be counted towards a persons age. Morally speaking, the answer is no, obviously not.

 

[mesclotysarack]

If someone is a story is put into hibernation do you count there time in it as part of there age?

Oh no, Ill stay in the forties forever

 

[Bobjock67]

Yes definitely

 

[Naps-On-Dirt]

Slightly different perspective, not sure if its been mentioned yet. In a show from the '90s called Earth 2, there was a character (played by Antonio Sabato Jr.) who was a long haul space pilot. They were travelling approaching the speed of light, enough to cause time dilation. I don't remember the scale or whatever but after a journey of only a few months for him, years had passed on earth when he got back. His character was considered to be a couple hundred years old or so (I don't remember exactly) but he had only aged to be in his 30s or whatever.

Similar to someone in a coma or suspended animation, their age was based on the paperwork, not how long they were awake for it.

 

[zark]

Slightly different perspective, not sure if its been mentioned yet. In a show from the '90s called Earth 2, there was a character (played by Antonio Sabato Jr.) who was a long haul space pilot. They were travelling approaching the speed of light, enough to cause time dilation. I don't remember the scale or whatever but after a journey of only a few months for him, years had passed on earth when he got back. His character was considered to be a couple hundred years old or so (I don't remember exactly) but he had only aged to be in his 30s or whatever.

Similar to someone in a coma or suspended animation, their age was based on the paperwork, not how long they were awake for it.

Yes it's 2 way that time is being changed at the same time.

 

[Arachel]

If somebody in a coma for was 8 when they went into a coma and were in a coma for 20 years I'm pretty sure you wouldn't say they were still 8. Sci-fi suspended animation where they don't age which isn't based in reality then sure I'd give that a pass on "age" though.

 

[User_103781]

I would.

Mind you being a 50000+ loli doesnt change the fact she is a loli and i am legal required to put you into a woodchiper for it.
So dont get caught.

 

[theosiris]

If someone is a story is put into hibernation do you count there time in it as part of there age?

Bro, stand up slowly and go call an ambulance for the stroke you just had.

 

[Nopi]

Sounds like someone has an abundance of shrooms.

 

[stoic.nothingness]

I think it depends on how you look at it. Mentally they would be the same age as they were when they went in. Physically they would be the age they were plus how long they were under. So I guess both depending how you look at it.

 

[elfieeven]

So.. would Patreon be fine with it if your LI is mentally 12 but physically 20?

 

[ErzuzB]

So.. would Patreon be fine with it if your LI is mentally 12 but physically 20?

Depents on how it's phrased I would say.
If you clearly state she is a child at mind or she is basically still a child, Patreon might not like that.

On the other hand... anyone watched the Tom Hanks movie "Big"?
It's about a boy who wakes up in the body of a 30 year old and is happy at first to be free of the typical restrictions of the child's world, but now has to deal with the adult's world.
And yes, there is an adult woman who falls in love with him and they end up having sex. So its an adult woman that seducess a 30 old body with a 12 year old mind (he has no clue about sex and love and stuff).

 

[LUVGAMZ23]

If someone in a story is put into hibernation, do you count there time in it as part of there age?

I will say that is one of the more creative ways to say "To my knowledge, she was 18 your honour..."

 

[elfieeven]

Depents on how it's phrased I would say.
If you clearly state she is a child at mind or she is basically still a child, Patreon might not like that.

On the other hand... anyone watched the Tom Hanks movie "Big"?
It's about a boy who wakes up in the body of a 30 year old and is happy at first to be free of the typical restrictions of the child's world, but now has to deal with the adult's world.
And yes, there is an adult woman who falls in love with him and they end up having sex. So its an adult woman that seducess a 30 old body with a 12 year old mind (he has no clue about sex and love and stuff).

Heh yes.. but that's an older female with a younger male.. society has no problem with that

 

[Intorpecido]

Chronological age will normally continue regardless of whether it is frozen or not.

The biological and mental age will be frozen in the freezing age.

Yes, there is aging during freezing, but it is so insignificant, it is worth mentioning that the cells are not receiving oxygen and nutrients from the blood stream that is frozen, damage to brain cells begins after 3 minutes in a cardiac arrest, so aging has to be lower than this.

 

[Cougar18]

Nope doesn't count. They have no memory of the stasis years

 

[shrandle]

No. Hibernation is basically stasis, which is basically time travel. If you "sleep" for a thousand years and look the same as you did when you went to sleep and have no new memories then you didn't age in any meaningful way. So yeah, it's just time travelling into the future for all intents and purposes.

 

[stangnomez]

Depends on how much sci-fi handwaving there is.

 

[User_111887]

There is a long an complicated answer to this question that would satisfy everyone, but let me put it this way if a 20 year old is frozen for 1000 years and is defrosted in the future and they still look 20 are you still gonna want to tap that.

 

[Ribaso]

If someone in a story is put into hibernation, do you count there time in it as part of there age?

Absolutely not, and an alternative for hibernation is timeline difference.