releasing disease to save humanity

Discussion in 'Biology & Genetics' started by eM0912, Aug 16, 2004.

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should diseases be allowed to roam the world?

  1. that's inhumane!

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  2. people deserve to die

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  3. to prevent overpopulation diseases should be free to roam the world

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  4. we should try to stop disease and evolve so that we will be resistant to everything, it's all about

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  1. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    ok...this is just a thought, but in my opinion don't you think that it would be better if we simply let disease rule the world? seriously...survival of the fittest. it would help keep the human numbers down and when they got too low we could start using medicines and such to preserve the human race until we got into another bout of overpopulation, then we could set the diseases free again. so...what do you think?

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  3. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    This is a stupid idea, for many reasons that should be obvious.
     
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  5. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    What if the disease mutates while out there and the prepared vaccinations fail to do the job?

    We're fucked.
     
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  7. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Anyone who uses 'survival of the fittest' in conjunction with 'saving humanity' should first read where the term survival of the fittest came from.
     
  8. Facial Valued Senior Member

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    Either that, or they have a very particular definition of humanity in mind.
     
  9. rGEMINI Fallen Entity Registered Senior Member

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    i think your obessed with this idea...
     
  10. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    how am i obsessed with the idea? i just don't think that humans should be saved from everything, there's nothing natural about our existence and that is basically the only reason why we are in the position that we are in. overpopulation. should we really just let people continue to breed and not have enough food and space for them? are we going to have to force people to start cremating their loved ones because we don't have enough space to bury them. as for the diseases mutating, they wouldn't, there wouldn't be a need for the diseases to mutate since they are not faced with vaccines. that's really one of the only reasons diseases mutate, not simply because they get bored of being there. also, i'm not saying that people shouldn't continue to work with diseases and come up with vaccines, they should, in fact with the money we would save on actually making the medications and such they could spend more money on the research. so how is it stupid for "obvious reasons"? change my mind. i don't think that humans should remain the dominant species, it is clear that we are only ruining the world and that an excess amount of us will eventually lead to our ultimate demise.
     
  11. hotsexyangelprincess WMD Registered Senior Member

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    or we could use this in conjunction with a much larger, more vast project to create a race of "superhumans". make him/her immune to all diseases, with extraordinary strength. thats a great idea. why don't we start working on that? :m:
     
  12. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    the race of superhumans would probably just kill the other humans and we'd have that whole epic battle of right and wrong, of genetically created and "natural" it would be yet another underbudget scifi film. i don't think it's a bad idea, if you think about it, humans were a lot more ... humane in the past. now a days we pass judgement and could care less. at least with diseases there isn't any prejudice, people aren't being killed because of their color, they're being killed because they're human.
     
  13. Dr Lou Natic Unnecessary Surgeon Registered Senior Member

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    The numbers would never get down low enough for us to need to bring medicine back. Diseases are only a danger because of overpopulation, once our numbers were back to normal and we were spaced out appropriately people would be alot healthier.
    I agree with what you're saying though, diseases should be allowed to do their jobs. Seems blatantly obvious to me but most are so blinded by their own personal fear of death that they want to keep everyone alive for as long as possible and have no regard for anything else.
    I find it very amusing how people feel the need to "correct" aids and cancer. How could these things be "wrong"? What makes us think they aren't supposed to be there? Where the fuck do we get off?
    Lets just block out the sun because its hot, and stop winds from blowing because they're cold. Put an end to the tides, I might get my feet wet

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    Diseases aren't there to threaten the existence of our species, they're there to keep our numbers in check, make sure there is a sustainable population. They would never send us extinct, UNLESS we became so overpopulated that everybody was litterally squished together.
    We don't seem to realise that everyone dies, we have an obsession with making people die how we want them to die, in a bed nearly rotting into the sheets.
    If a disease or shark takes one of us before our flesh is smelling rancid with age, we're outraged, why? Whats the difference?
     

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