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re: How much innovation have we lost due to legal abortion?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:36 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:36 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Roger Klarvin
How much innovation have we lost due to legal abortion?
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But for sake of discussion, how many criminals would you trade, for say, a person who discovered the cure for cancer?
Curing cancer outright would be the single biggest disaster in human history.
i assume you have a reason for that (other than "jobs"), and i doubt you're an idiot, so i'd like to know why you think that ...
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:47 pm to tiderider
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i doubt you're an idiot
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i'd like to know why you think that
Some pretty advanced calculations have been done on this, anticipating the effects on population if certain causes of death plummeted or were eliminated.
Cancer kills about 9 million people in the world annually and single handidly drops the average lifespan across the globe by over 5 years. If eliminated cancer, the world's population would double roughly every 25 years.
At our current rate, the population will be between 13 to 16 billion by 2100. Taking cancer out of the equation, that number balloons to around 60 billion.
This planet cannot currently sustain anywhere close to that number of people.
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