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What are some small things we should change about the human body? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

No periods
No balding
No nausea
No body odor
Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No more cancer please.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

there's almost a vaccine for that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

You can not have a cure for cancer, but a cancer. I promise I am not trying to be pedantic here. Cancers are so different from one another, that a single cure for breast cancer might not even work on all breast cancer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"is curing patients a viable business model?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nop, preventing them from dying is though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is so fucked up but yeah I can see them settling for research on a drug or treatment that just keeps you from reaching Stage 4 to where you become a lifelong consumer of said medical company.