Fates worse than death are hardly arcane. They occur every day. Fates far worse than what is possible now are not any more arcane than the mentioned hypothetical ability to cure all disease and aging via cellular-level nanomedicine. In fact, the capability to inflict fates much, much worse than death on people is straight-up implied by the medical capabilities he’s imagining here.
Fates worse than death are hardly arcane. They occur every day. Fates far worse than what is possible now are not any more arcane than the mentioned hypothetical ability to cure all disease and aging via cellular-level nanomedicine. In fact, the capability to inflict fates much, much worse than death on people is straight-up implied by the medical capabilities he’s imagining here.