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re: What are your thoughts on human genetic engineering?
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:45 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:45 pm to Roger Klarvin
quote:I would argue that cancer is proportionately a disease of people past the age of reproduction so it doesn't affect this as much, and we are well on our way to the five generation thing regardless.
Second, the worst thing that could happen to humanity (aside from nuclear war) would be to dramatically lower the rates of cancer death in the world. Within five generations we'd all find ourselves starving to death.
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:48 pm to MIZ_COU
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I would argue that cancer is proportionately a disease of people past the age of reproduction so it doesn't affect this as much, and we are well on our way to the five generation thing regardless.
Irrelevant. Old people are still mouths to feed, and society depends on them dying off in huge numbers every year.
People have done the math on this, accounting for age at the time of death, and every model is terrifying.
If you just drop the worldwide annual death toll from cancer by 50%, our current world population would double by 2030.
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