Basically for me it bowls down to what humans have done with the planet as a result of over population and greed. If we as the most dominate race on the planet don't wake up and realise what we are doing to the Earth now (sometimes I think it is already too late), nature will strike back and in a horrible way. In a way it is already happening...you have bacteria that is resistent to most if not all known antibiotics popping up, you have your STDs like AIDs that currently have no cure, and a few other dieseses as well. Oh and conditions that have been known to be genetic as well...like breast cancer. Some common minor conditions that are not life threatening too, like near/farsightedness. Why? Because by not letting natural selection take place the way nature intended we are not allowing our species to adapt to the ever changing environment. Instead we let technology do the adapting for us...but the thing is...Mother Nature can change a heck of a lot faster then we can develop a new vaccine, antibotic, or other treatment.
I will say this...I would let nature deal with me as it sees fit. If it deems me unfit...so be it, that would be my fate. I wear glasses (i am very nearsighted), have high cholestrol (which I am not taking medicine for FYI), and I have an increased risk of getting breast cancer because my mother had it. Do I care how long I live? No. It is the quality of ones life...not its length...that truly matters. After all...with life...comes death, it is the way of things...
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