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Is modern medicine affecting the human gene pool? (www.thenakedscientists.com)

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What's your opinion on this? Is curing hereditary diseases on a genetic level a scientific possibility? If so, why there's a focus on supressing those diseases or their symptoms?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

People who ask these questions should answer this one: If you or the people you're close to were on the bad end of the spectrum (which they conveniently never think they are), are you willing to die or watch your friends and loved ones die for the sake of the """ideal""" human race? If you're not willing to end up getting the shortest end of your own deal, then shut up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I just think we shouldn't have got to a point where we're infested with many diseases that could've vanished with natural selection. Leaving everyone to die or worse to exterminate them is absurd and ineffective, we gotta first fix the way healthcare and medicine should treat the ill.