Thread: Could the world be in any worse shape?

Originally Posted by sycld

oh hai guiz the last 100 years of modern medicine is the only reason why we have genetic diseases that have been with humanity for hundreds of thousands of years

oh hai gice I'm not saying it'd completely cure it.

But think about it, if my diabetic child were to just die rather than be constantly treated, then his genes would have a 0% possibility of passing those genes down. Sure someone may be carrying that gene and not expressing it, but if you are expressing the gene you have a pretty high rate of passing that down

Originally Posted by Vengeful Scars

oh hai gice I'm not saying it'd completely cure it.

But think about it, if my diabetic child were to just die rather than be constantly treated, then his genes would have a 0% possibility of passing those genes down. Sure someone may be carrying that gene and not expressing it, but if you are expressing the gene you have a pretty high rate of passing that down

Diabetes was a poor example for you to choose seeing as I could develop it without the genetic history for it.

We get it, you're talking about genetic evolution. What we're saying is that it's been done before. You're not breaking new ground here Copernicus. We've also cured things like Polio, to the point where it's not even considered an issue anymore.

Say you break both of your legs, by definition no one should help you, pick you up or take you to the hospital. Ideally you should be left there to die because a) you were stupid enough to break both your legs, b) you lacked sufficient enough calcium to have the strength to endure the shock to your legs.

You're expanding not only into simple Darwinism, but social Darwinism.

As much as you would like to play devil's advocate it simply is not a concept that's going to be applied in reality. Ever. So you can stop.

Don't forget that things like cancer are genetic mutations that, again, can occur without genetic histories.