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Old 11-20-2007, 07:57 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gorillamom View Post
I'm still up in the air over stem cells. Are we supposed to interfere like this in the first place? We humans are over populated to begin with. I suffer from several illnesses, but maybe we are not supposed to find cures. Nature has it's way of controlling populations with diseases. Keeping people comfortable is one thing, but maybe we shouldn't be so insecure about having illnesses and disabilities. Ae we asking too much from our own species and using other species to experiment on?
Think it is time for another step in our evolution, if we are going to step off this planet we need all the advantage/knowledge that we can muster. We just have to do better at taking care of our populations - besides killing them off.
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