You seem to be saying that if we correct genetic defects, this will increase survival and lead to over population, a poisoned environment, and poor nutrition.Originally posted by tianup@16 May 2003 - 23:04
If you remove the genetic defects that nature has programmed due to over-population, toxification, poor nutrition, etc., nature, as it has shown us MANY times, will simply create a more powerful genetic weakness, or virus, or natural disaster for that matter, to take care of the imbalance. This is what we were discussing before. I don't know if I agree that it is a form of natural population control
but I do agree that it is at least a symptom. If you can see this corelation, then you must be able to see what happens when medical science solves these "genetic defects". We receive "evolved" defects. It's the same with viruses (the ones nature created), and other natural "predators".
So, I agree with you in theory. But I believe the only way to achieve this balance is to earn it through creating a healthy environment which will cause this adaptation naturally. Fixing genetic code is short term and will cause more problems in the long run than we've even dreamed of. As much as it would be nice to believe, you cannot fool nature.
Just MHO.
That is true, that for every silver-lining there is a cloud.
I was just pointing out that the more sophisticated the society, the more vulnerable it would be to a man-made or natural disaster, becasue it has the ability to allow those with genetic frailities to survive and reproduce.
Look at the people of Iraq, all living in hard times, those who have survived are tough, all those with birth defects, metabolic illnesses, endocrine disaese, etc are dead. Those surviving people have the genetics to function independent of technology.
I just find it ironic that the greater our science becomes the weaker we as individuals are. If an equal disaster were to occur worldwide, all the high-tech people would be wiped out, leaving the primitive dwellers behind.
So, I was just pointing out that the only way to combine living in a technologically advanced world with maintaining a resilent genome is through gene therapy.
You are absolutely right in concluding that we would just disrupt balance by overpopulating the planet, or in some other way. This is a shame though, since we as humans could control overpopulation voluntarily, but we wouldn't. Alas.
I think you should have to pass a test in order to be issued gonads.
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