Lilly
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Not too long ago my biology class had a good discussion on whether Americans were ruining evolution. Here's what we came up with: We wear lots of clothes, so our body hair is thinning out. We provide an extreme excess of food, so people aren't really starving. We have medicine and vaccinations for almost everything, preventing the diseased from dying (I know it sounds cruel that way, but think in scientific terms). There is an ecological carrying capacity that can only support so many humans. In the past, when the carrying capacity is crossed over, a disease hits and kills off millions of people (something like the Plague). Now, however, when a disease hits, we fight it, create a vaccination for it, and educate ourselves on how not to get it if there's no vaccine (like with AIDS). When the carrying capacity is passed too far there is much suffering all around and it's a violent time to be alive. If we let people die from these diseases, only the "fit" (fit coming from Darwin's definition of fitness, being that the more fit you are the more you can reproduce) would survive and create more fit people and we will emerge a stronger species. But if we did this, most of us would die before our 14th birthday. Which goes back to lots of suffering again. Then, there's stem cell research which is promising to save more lives, but should we save those lives (again, think in science terms, not personal terms)? What is to come of our future generations if we are fixing all of our short comings?
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*Proud owner, maker, and baker of THE U2 cookies*