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Both diabetes and myopathy are direct results of our society. They represent cases where our technology and our living standards have caused diseases in abunda
by imchillyb 3y ago
Both diabetes and myopathy are direct results of our society. They represent cases where our technology and our living standards have caused diseases in abundance.
Adding yet another easily avoidable disease to the pile seems reckless.
- DonsDiscountGas 3y agoDiabetes is as old as humanity, up until a century ago it was death sentence. Our living standards have caused people to live where earlier they would have died. Here we are allowing people to reproduce where otherwise they would not be able to. All of this is a good thing.
- inglor_cz 3y agoDo you mean "myopia"? Yeah, it is a civilizational disease, but from a sufferer: it is very much bearable and tolerable. I surely wouldn't like to play some sort of eugenic match against people who would rather either stop civilization in its track or prevent myopic people like me from existence for their own good, or ban them from doing anything that could possibly cause myopia in them. People suffered all sorts of aftereffects from civilizational progress, but I am optimistic in the sense that we can eventually conquer them and next generations may enjoy all the benefits without suffering harms.