... Things to say
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In today’s world, it’s hard to find something incurable by human medicine. Cancer can be cured; people who go blind will soon be able to have prosthetic retinas replacing their broken ones and feeding their brains a false sense of sight. It started me thinking, are we messing up the cycle of life? Where is evolution to go next? As soon as someone gets what would have been a fatal problem, they get a dose of pills, and don’t think anything more about it. With the latest advancements in medicine, we’ve managed to stop evolution in its tracks.
Think of it this way; evolution was a series of mistakes that made us better throughout the millions of years it took. When there was a bad mistake, or someone couldn’t fight a disease, they died, and didn’t end up reproducing kids who had the same problem. Thus, only the best would survive, and only the best would reproduce, so only the best would go on to become the next step in that species evolution. In our case, we’ve simply made more cures with our huge brains, and where do we get? Only more things to cure.
The people who have been able to get / pay for medical help are the ones who are able to survive. So, has it become; survival of the richest? Is that how we cheat Mother Nature? By buying our ways out of death? I’m not saying I want everyone with a fatal illness to just give up and keel over, I’m simply saying this. We have found a way to cheat the rules of Mother Nature. We are now able to say no, to death, we have found a way to play god, Isn’t that the greatest sin?
24 January, 2006 11:46
