In Your Opinion...When will we have a Cure...take the poll
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Pianist</b></i>
Faust:
Man.. and my wife calls ME the "Voice of Doom". Looks like it's time I relinquish the crown to the new master. :^)
Anywho, I'm not going to get dragged into a drawn out "humans suck", plagues of locusts are about to envelope everything, we are all going to get sucked into a black hole and our sun is going to go supernova argument because since there is a chance that our time on Earth might be less than others that would be a giant waste of time for both of us. While I believe that some cynicism and critical thought is good, I am concerned that you are 100% negative, and that is not healthy or productive. So, I would like to point out a few things:
- I agree with the whole economic thing to a point, but you are doing what most humans do which is taking things to one huge extreme or the other
- If your hypothesis was true, if the medical industry was completely motivated by greed, then there would be no cures for anything. There ARE cures for diseases. There ARE fatal and debilitating diseases that have been marginalized to inconveniences.
- *Most* doctors got into the field to help people. Last I checked the hippocratic oath was not "avoid curing disease in order to milk every sucker dry".</end quote></div>
What have we "cured" besides maybe Polio? We don't "cure" anything. We create drugs that sooth the symptoms. It's an economic model. You want to keep your consumers of your product, happily consuming your product. If you were to cure any disease, you take those consumers away. While I agree I can be pretty grim at times, I feel I am direct and see past much of the "fluff" we confuse for other things in life. I got a little carried away last night in my previous post, but the general ideas remain the same. Humans are inherently greedy. If there is a way to wring out another penny from another person, regardless of the ethical/moral dilemma, someone, and in turn some group of people will be doing it.
If I had to break down the two biggest negative things associated with the human race, it would have to be the two words: Control, and Greed. From those two words, you can explain nearly 100% of everything bad humans do, or have done to each other.
If realizing that makes me the Grinch, by all means (starts stealing the Who's presents from Whotown.) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Pianist</b></i>
Faust:
Man.. and my wife calls ME the "Voice of Doom". Looks like it's time I relinquish the crown to the new master. :^)
Anywho, I'm not going to get dragged into a drawn out "humans suck", plagues of locusts are about to envelope everything, we are all going to get sucked into a black hole and our sun is going to go supernova argument because since there is a chance that our time on Earth might be less than others that would be a giant waste of time for both of us. While I believe that some cynicism and critical thought is good, I am concerned that you are 100% negative, and that is not healthy or productive. So, I would like to point out a few things:
- I agree with the whole economic thing to a point, but you are doing what most humans do which is taking things to one huge extreme or the other
- If your hypothesis was true, if the medical industry was completely motivated by greed, then there would be no cures for anything. There ARE cures for diseases. There ARE fatal and debilitating diseases that have been marginalized to inconveniences.
- *Most* doctors got into the field to help people. Last I checked the hippocratic oath was not "avoid curing disease in order to milk every sucker dry".</end quote></div>
What have we "cured" besides maybe Polio? We don't "cure" anything. We create drugs that sooth the symptoms. It's an economic model. You want to keep your consumers of your product, happily consuming your product. If you were to cure any disease, you take those consumers away. While I agree I can be pretty grim at times, I feel I am direct and see past much of the "fluff" we confuse for other things in life. I got a little carried away last night in my previous post, but the general ideas remain the same. Humans are inherently greedy. If there is a way to wring out another penny from another person, regardless of the ethical/moral dilemma, someone, and in turn some group of people will be doing it.
If I had to break down the two biggest negative things associated with the human race, it would have to be the two words: Control, and Greed. From those two words, you can explain nearly 100% of everything bad humans do, or have done to each other.
If realizing that makes me the Grinch, by all means (starts stealing the Who's presents from Whotown.) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">