Why do we feel a need to cure disease?

Canada
March 27, 2007 1:29pm CST
Ok, this may come across as a little harsh and I don't mean to offend people in any way. I was thinking about a post by someone about disease and how to contain that disease. I think there is a reason for diseases (cancer, AIDS...etc). The population keeps rising and natures way of keeping things under control is to weed out the weak. This leaves fewer people but strong people. Medicine has come a long way and has found cures and vaccines for these diseases, thus thwarting nature's natural selection. As a result, the population becomes larger. Mother nature retaliates by intorducing a bigger disease which we cure or vaccinate for. This cycle goes on and on until we reach the point where we are now. The flu and a common cold used to be fatal, then it progressed to the point of AIDS. Now we can prolong the life of a person with AIDS for years. Then SARS developed. We still haven't figured that one out but we are smart, we will. I just wonder what will happen after that? What type of horrible disease will surface after that?
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ZenDove
@ZenDove (698)
• United States
27 Mar 07
Just as "nature" struggles and rebels in order to find the most optimum conditions for her survival - so do human beings. We have no less of a right to survival than does nature. At times, it may seem as though we are at cross purposes but every organism craves the same thing - survival. Every virus, every parasite, every being strives to evolve and to be fruitful. And yes, they get smarter as we get smarter. Ironically, the cures for overcoming diseases are found within nature herself. The cures and the causes. We, humans, are not seperate from nature, we are not 'other than.' I think that the true battle is for one of balance. Balance within and balance with nature and all of her elements. Will disease continue to progress? Sure. And so will our understanding and technology. Perhaps the urge to cure disease, for all of us in nature, is a question of balance vs oblivion. We don't want to just fade away. Kind of a natural intinct, I would say.