Our extreme manipultion of the world around us is going to be our downfall someday.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I couldn't agree more. People are always freaking out over how we 'caused' global warming and tampered with nature but really we are part of nature and everything happens for a reason.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree 100%. We're working backwards and need to just let nature take it's course.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if the cure is age specific? There are some treatments and cures for things out there that only works on people of a certain age. So, a cure for childhood cancer is bad in the long run?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's heartbreaking for a child to die and I not imagine what parents who lost a child to cancer would have to go through. If I had a child, of course I would want them to live. However, I still believe a cure for childhood cancer wouldhave a negative affect for not only humanity as a whole. We have found cures to so many diseases and our lifespan has increased drastically compared to a hundred years ago. Humans are becoming overpopulated and we don't have the resources to accommodate for us all. So yes, I think a cure for childhood cancer would be bad in the long run.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow. You want kids to die just because they have cancer?! You wouldn't want to treat them? You've obviously never known a child with cancer. You're saying just because a child has cancer means they deserve to die, because if we let them live, the world will become overpopulated. That's like saying every child that gets the flu in the winter should not be treated because the world will become overpopulated and they should die.It's not logical.Why are we just talking about cancer, specifically?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fuck off, anon, and stop putting words in FlipFlopsAndSocks's mouth!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its not putting words in peoples mouth its just a different point of view, get over it. its my opinion, calm down.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I smell hatred.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I bet that if someone you loved had cancer you wouldn't give a fuck about the overpopulation.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well that's just it. I'm sure I wouldn't either. I would cling to every possible hope that they would survive. I never said I wouldn't. I just said that we would become even more overpopulated. I understand that it makes me sound like a hypocrite for saying so, but it's human nature to care. I'm just thinking about the big picture, which is easy to do when I'm not actually in the situation.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I had a friend die of Leukemia, and I agree with the fact that our world is overpopulated and this is just life taking its natural course.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've thought about this. This is why I'm considering not being an epidemiologist. But then again...I don't know.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

people will still die, but let's face it, with medicine becoming better and better people will live longer anyway. the answer isn't to write off people who suffer from cancer, it's to find ways to better manage the resources we have. i get the big picture message, don't get me wrong, but as someone who is going to be devoting a lifetime to this cause, it irks me when people just say i shouldn't bother.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just typed a long reply but accidentally erased it all. To sum up what I had said: I meant no disrespect and contrarily highly respect your you've to dedicate your life to this. A cure for cancer would be great, but if not by illness humans need to find some other way to control the population and I agree with your statement about being smarter about our resources.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(sorry I made a lot of typos in that)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're exactly right, resource allocation should be a primary concern. According to most estimates the current population already exceeds Earth's carrying capacity. However, fertility rates have faced enormous drops worldwide (including Africa) over the past several years. The problem we will face in the future won't be overpopulation, it will be ageing population. Which is the result of lower early-age mortality rates and greater fitness and health rates in the elderly. This problem is going to have a MAJOR ECONOMIC IMPACT. Social security is just the beginning.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think that's an ignorit thing to say and you should be ashamed of yourself. My aunt just died of ovarion cancer and my cousin just died of breast cancer.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*ignorant

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not a personal insult. Nowhere did it say "PEOPLE WITH CANCER ARE HORRIBLE AND SHOULD DIE" It's something I think about all the time, and it's true. If we weren't so advanced in medicine more people would naturally die, but they don't, so there are too many people. It won't ever be fixed by letting people die, I'm sure, because when it does happen to you with someone you know/love, you couldnt imagine letting them go. But yeah, this isn't ignorant in any way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sorry about your aunt and cousin, but I know quite a few people who have died from cancer too and I know somebody who has lung cancer now, but if we cure every illness and people start living for a really long time, there will be nothing to stop overpopulation from happening. Even more people will be homeless and die from starvation because there won't be enough resources. I'm not saying this is going to happen any time soon, but it's something that nobody ever wants to happen.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In 1908 1/30 people had cancer. Now 1/2 people do. Unless you get it as a child, it's caused by the kind of life you lead.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its not 1/2

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What statistic do you have?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

half of the population do not have cancer

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not half the population [in America] at any given point, it's half the population will get cancer sometime in their life. And someone can have cancer and not know it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oh ok that makes sense

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sources please?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I really don't think that a cure for cancer would affect the population any more than current medicine does.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think that this post is offensive. I had cancer when I was younger, and had many friends die from it at a very young age. I completely disagree. So your saying if we shouldn't cure cancer if we had the resources? Thats like saying we shouldn't treat cancer because of overpopulation. Why just cancer? Why not just let everyone die from different diseases, STDs, strep throat? Don't treat anyone, because it's natural for people to die.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Do you mean treat cancer like chemo/radiation?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If we have the resources, we should, and will use them. I agree that the world is overpopulated, but we should focus on managing resources and educating people about contraceptives, not letting people die when we can save them. My father died from cancer, but I still had this opinion before he was even diagnosed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why should we stand by and let innocent people die because of fear of over population? If we are capable of keeping them alive we should.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's easy to say, until a loved one dies from cancer.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'd like to clarify that I never meant that anyone and everyone with cancer should be left to die and I never meant this post to be interpretred as me saying we shouldn't try to save them. What I had meant was with the way things are going how they are now, IF things don't improve (better managed resources and population control), then a cure for every possible disease or illness (not specifically cancer, it was just the example I uses) would eventually make it so almost most of the population lives for an extended period of time. Humans are living to reach older age than we used to. Add that with the fact that more people are surviving to get that old means eventually we will have too many people to accommodate for. I never said that if a loved one had cancer I would let them die. Of course I would want them to live. I don't think anyone WOULDN'T. However, with the rate things are going now, cancer is one of the few things that keep out population in check.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ok that makes more sense. i think a lot of people misinterpreted what you meant.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Surely another solution would be responsible breeding, so many people have 3+ children, who in turn have 3+ children. It is selfish to have a large number and is the main contributing factor to our exponetial population growth. Anyone with more than two kids has no right to moan about traffic jams, house prices, lack of employment etc as they are causing it. As for the cancer issue, I'm impartial about curing it, I'm at a high risk due to working with some of the worst carcinigens in the world, but if I get cancer I'll take my own life before I suffer - I enjoy life but don't fear death as I won't be conscious when I'm no longer alive

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Cancer disease starts as an abnormal human cell in which the body has lost control. Cell growth has to be strictly regulated for proper functioning of the body. Ever year it has been estimated that 6.7 million people die due to cancer. Yes it is true that cure of cancer has been improved over the years with the help of diagnostic equipments like present at http://www.ilexmedical.com/products.php?id=61 and the better medicine to give timely cure. However, in reality suffering and death from cancer can be prevented through lifestyle changes as well. Like avoid using tobacco, always take healthy diet plan, do regular physical activity, and avoiding ultraviolet radiation exposure. People should aware about the symptoms and get in regular touch with doctors to avoid severe consequences.

by Anonymous 8 years ago

Having had relatives who have died of cancer, I can tell you that cancer is not a good solution to control population growth.

by Anonymous 8 years ago