WOW this thread was brought back from the dead!

:edit: sry someone beat me to it

 

:crazyr: I didn't even look to see. Daaang.

 

there is a cure for diabetes, but unfortunately treating the disease is more profitable than curing it so it will never be released.

 

this thread needs to go back to the dead.

 

this used to be in On-Topic h:

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that sounds like a conspiracy theory. got any documentation to support this?

 

of course not, just the word from a doctor. Do you really think the greedy politicians and pharmeceautical companies are going to cure diseases if they can keep you alive and profit from the treatment? If you actually do then you're very optimistic and naive, the global market is about profit margins, not health...sure the wealthy/elite might be able to buy the cure, but for a pretty penny. I believe the same will go with aids, they can keep ppl alive for 20+ years on expensive treatments, why cure someone and lose all that capital? Because it's the right thing to do? Gone are the comanpy's that do what's right cuz it feels good, billions in cash flow seems to bring them the same warm fuzzy feeling.

I don't really want to get deep into discussion, but if you really believe these companies are out for the better interest you should climb back in your fantasy world it's much better there.

When was the last cure for something major released, that can't be treated as well?

 

This is a pretty cool thread, I gotta agree with Blackbacca, ina very intellectual sense preserving the lives of those "not fit" is detrimental to our entire species. And someone raised the point that genetic defects are "nto curable" but if those who had them couldn't reporduce they'd be effectivley "cured" for the population as a whole.

Of course when it comes to my family, or friends, the species can go fuck tiself and I'ma look out for mine.

I guess that's what it really comes down to, what's best for the species won't happen when it's not what's immediatley best for the individuals.


I wouldn't worry about natural selection being defeated by humans though, we're just changing how it will work, instead of being a slow, constant process we are dealying it, and when it finally comes it will be BIG. Specifically, vaccinations are ruining our immunity as a species (in the 1st world countries) while the germs that they fight against face extremelty harsh conditions and are selected agianst very precisly. Each germ generation (which is 20 minutes long) is getting exponentially tougher while humans (20 year generaton) are gettng weaker. Pretty soon (some estiamte five years) we'll reach a breaking point and have a major epidemic of super-germs versus weak ass 1st world country livers. See you guys there, I'll be the one trading in my 401 K for heroin.

 

It's in the same place where the cure for cancer and AIDs is.... in the imagination of us people that find it easier to believe that we are being lied to and smarter than we actually are, than to realize that maybe we aren't as smart as we think we are and maybe mother nature has made something just a little more complex than we, at least at this time, can over come.

 

Gattaca was a great movie.