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Ummm… Humans "dealt with disease" before "modern medicine" frequently by dying.

• josephcsible 5y ago
  Yes, that's my point. Technology can save a lot of lives, even though living without it didn't kill enough humans to drive us to extinction.
  • ineedasername 5y ago
    Yes, the argument from "But this is how natural humans used to live!" Has spawned any number of misaprehemsions, not to mention a few fad diets. By all means, embrace food as eaten by out ancestors, if that's what someone really wants, but they should understand that such diets resulted in malnutrition and stunted growth, and we're "embraced" by our ancestors living on the brink of starvation & lack of choice.
• ineedasername 5y ago
  frequently by dying In the long term, humans deal with everything by dying. It's rather inefficient and denotes a tendency to run away from any problem that can't be solved within the ~55 years of an educated human period of productivity. Maybe with a little more grit and resolve to avoid such cowardly tactics as death we would undertake longer term projects. But as long as humans insist on dying, that is going to be a nearly impossible challenge. It is hard to get a person motivated to take on a high-stakes challenge when they plan on dying before the consequences of inaction impact them. I propose that all humans make the sensible choice to not die, at least for a century or so longer than their current predilections in this area, to demonstrate their commitment to truly advancing the cause of human kind.