Nukes

[AngleWyrm]

Mosquitos do improve life, in a bizarre and counter-intuitive manner. They are nature's flu shot, spreading a small amount of disease to everyone, so that we have a chance to develop immunities.

Someone once told me that kids who are raised in overly-hygenic environments are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and other weaknesses of the immune system.

[Dizzy]

AngleWyrm said:
Mosquitos do improve life, in a bizarre and counter-intuitive manner.

STFU! Malaria, fool! Wiki it.

I wouldn't call one to three MILLION anual deaths due to mosquitos a bizarre improvement to life. I call it a cruel death. Don't forget the millions more in sickness and disability they cause, not to mention the rest of the spread of disease.

I fully support a bomb that would kill 10 million humans worldwide if it completely eradicated mosquitos once and for all. That's far fewer than the millions upon millions it would kill in the future.

Let's get interesting, tho. If I were the one that gave final authorization to use said bomb, and a vaccine for malaria was developed not 30 days after the fact, would I in fact be a murderer?

[Mephisto]

*Moderator mode /on*

Please, easy with words like STFU. Thank you.

*Moderator mode /off*

[Yimboli]

AngleWyrm said:
Mosquitos do improve life, in a bizarre and counter-intuitive manner. They are nature's flu shot, spreading a small amount of disease to everyone, so that we have a chance to develop immunities.

Someone once told me that kids who are raised in overly-hygenic environments are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and other weaknesses of the immune system.

BINGO

you can wiki that too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy...ene_Hypothesis

Imagine a world where organisms adapt to threats through natural selection. Oh wait that's reality.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening organisms. Remove the communicated diseases and our immune systems go to sh*t.

[Phoenix-D]

Natural selection only works on the population level; it does NOT apply to individual organisms, not in the way you're thinking.

[Dizzy]

Bingo my ***. One to Three million deaths is not natures struggle Yimboli. It's needless death.

Humans have gone beyond adapting through natural selection by use of technology. We have vaccines now. Natural selection has nothing to do with it. If we had a vaccine for malaria it'd be used, but we dont yet. Besides, there is little adapting to malaria unless you are adapting through a real estate agent that knows a good place away from ponds and the coast.

So your argument is crap.

[NullAshton]

Our way of adapting is different from most creatures. Most creatures create new defenses to protect against diseases and predators. We? We build things to blow predators up, and create vaccines to make us immune.

Just that our method tends to not require as much breeding. Thus letting us expand, increase the gene pool, and generally prosper by letting our old and weak people who would otherwise die out, protect us.

Us avoiding deadly diseases, parasites, and generally creating a cleaner world for ourselves is what keeps society healthy as a whole for us.

[Shadowstar]

Most technology is not devoted to blowing up predators, but rather other humans. But then again, humans ARE predators after all... But technology as an alternative to natural selection seems a bit of a stretch. Natural selection is a neccessary method of ensuring the survival of the species. Only the earliest forms of technology were developed for such purposes. Humans have long since surpassed the point where the survival of our species was threatened.

So if you consider technology to be the human alternative to evolution, then we truly are something unique. We do not evolve to survive, we evolve to dominate our universe.

[Wenin]

Our way of adapting is different from most creatures.

Obviously it wasn't always like that.

Sickle Cell Anemia

[NullAshton]

Level 100 antiproton beams wouldn't just glass the planet, they would probally ignite the atmosphere and send a chain reaction through it destroying it all...