Grand_Pamplemousse said:
Booze Zombie said:
Grand_Pamplemousse said:
Yeh, I herd that if u giv evry1 cancers then they al become immune or somthing. Cos instead of dieing a horible death ther kids get immunities and they pass it on to ther kids.
Or just wait for medical science to come along with a much less lethal method of curing the disease.
I hate this kind of thread, people talking about a very complicated thing as if they know all the little details of it.
It would solve our overpopulation problem and potentially cure AIDS, a theory I back-up with a group of prostitutes found in Africa who were AIDS immune, oddly enough.
Also, cancer is a cell error, how would you pass that on to a child?
Your "sarcasm" isn't very good, by the way.
Oh God, did you just say the way to solve 'over-population' problem would be to slaughter most of the worlds population? By your forced breeding to create a super race and your ideas on 'over-population' I can see that your opinion is a little wacko.
Also, the cancer bit was a bit of a joke on your expense, just to check if you got it.
I am working on my sarcasm, give me a while.
He has a point, and being as this conversation is hypothetical, it doesn't matter how "wacko" the ideas which he puts forward are, as it'll never happen.
Statement 1: There are too many people on this earth.
Statement 2: There are many life-threatening diseases
Statement 3: Surviving descendants of people with the disease will start to gain a natural immunity (Those with a lower immunity don't survive to pass the genes on)
Disagree with any of those three?
Solution to 1: Take some people off of earth. How do we do that? Either kill some, stop some having kids, or ship some off-planet. Taking them off planet isn't viable, so we've either got a China-style birth plan (which many reject out of hand), or genocide.
Solution to 2: Eliminate them. To do that, either stop the virus spreading until the last carrier dies, or give the populous immunity. The only ways to get immunity is by vaccination (dead virus cells injected into the body) or by natural selection (as this guy suggests), where the naturally immune survive to pass those on to the next generation.
Solution to 3: To give the larger number the chance of immunity, more must be infected. The more survivors there are, the easier it is to rebuild the population afterwards.