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Too glib and trite. These things can change, and are affected by us. Three key here is that collectively we have the power to fix things yet we do not collecti
by AstralStorm 9y ago
Too glib and trite. These things can change, and are affected by us.
Three key here is that collectively we have the power to fix things yet we do not collectively exercise it enough and build systems that make it harder.
- jacquesm 9y agoYou don't change your genetics in any meaningful way during your life no matter how much you want to influence them. If you're born with Down syndrome that's that. A predisposition for getting certain kinds of cancer tend to be born out by statistics. Having a body that works well for athletics is mostly a function of genetics and training. No amount of collective work is going to make everybody athletes, the whole definition of an athlete is 'outlier'. What we can change collectively is education and diet.
- AstralStorm 9y agoI meant as a society. We have the power to fix many of these things but we choose not to exercise it for allegedly ethical reasons and the economics. Genetics are not a life sentence either except in the most complex cases - genes are activated and regulated by the environment. Sometimes even environment in the womb. Not just diet. Exposure to chemicals and mother's illnesses too. Or main limitations here are ethics and lack of knowledge, both self imposed.