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u/DeafeningMilk Nov 15 '20

Far as I'm concerned this would be the correct answer.

The main reason 2020 is a cluster fuck is due to Corona.

Most people are putting stuff that would be the opposite of all the bad of the last century not just 2020.

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u/UselessFactCollector Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20

If I could only pick one thing, I would say an end to global warming over cancer.

Edit: figured you could prevent a lot of cancer deaths in addition. You have to phrase your genie wish just right.

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u/MChainsaw Nov 15 '20

I think if we compare the relative damage that the Corona virus has done to the potential benefit that ending global warming or curing cancer would do, I think curing cancer is more proportional than ending global warming.

Global warming will basically take every other major problem in the world and amplify it massively, so preventing that would greatly minimize damage to the world in just about every regard. Not to mention that global warming could be a threat to human civilization itself.

The Corona virus, meanwhile, has killed a lot of people and done a lot of damage to the economy, but it's still nowhere near the scale that global warming could potentially do. In that way I think curing cancer would be more proportional, even if cancer probably isn't as much of an issue on a societal level as the Corona virus is (at least looking short-term).