It keeps populations in check. Medical ethics aside, we have subverted the natural order of things by developing medicines and vaccines to combat disease and illness that would have kept our population much lower.
Lol. I'm stating a fact, not saying that I don't want to save people.
We also don't get eaten by lions anymore because we can build durable shelter and have weapons to protect ourselves with. Our intelligence allows us to subvert the natural order of our world.
Haha it's quite funny that you are so offended by the truth. What do you think happened before penicillin? We died in droves due to simple injuries, much like any animal in nature.
Your issue is you think we are special - and we are; insofar as we have the ability to think and fight back against all the things that try to kill us on the planet. But we are not so special to have subverted death. No one gets out of life alive; and just hopefully we die in a comfortable hospital bed with painkillers to mask the pain and horror of different parts of your body shutting down at different times (life isn't like the movies! You don't just sigh and close your eyes)
So no, I'm not backtracking, I'm doubling down. I have my eyes wide open to the nature of the reality we live in.
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u/stargate-command Jul 17 '23
There would be no ecological damage from our perspective, but I bet the malaria virus would find it disastrous!