What would you choose, cure for CANCER or AIDS?

[makedah]

Okay, so what about "Oh shit, I should have used sunscreen!"

 

[Code]

Okay, so what about "Oh shit, I should have used sunscreen!"

Thats not nearly as ignorant/stupid/retarded as smokers, they can be cured.

 

[makedah]

I dunno. I work at a college and these kids are pretty stuck on tanning. But I get your point.

 

[AustinTX]

I would say AIDS. because cancer is not one disease, but a name for a cluster of similarly symptomed diseases with a myriad of causes and/or potentials for cure. So you'd have to find a cure for each seperate variety. Tall order.

And it gets to me how so many MILLIONS have HIV and they are going to die of it as their govts are too corrupt or too poor to get the drugs we have access to over here. I'm assuming you're talking worldwide BTW. We're talking people who can't read or write, know nothing of disease or the mechanisms of its transmission, who see it as some kind of random plague and have no way of understanding how to prevent it - education would be a great help there I think. That and donating millions of condoms to be handed out free of charge. They're not expensive to manufacture.

There are 20 millions South Africans infected with HIV. Most can't afford any treatment whatsoever. THey are going to die in slow and painful ways...

Pretty much agree with CircusGirl.

If you wanted a real comparison, you should have gone for AIDS vs Prostate Cancer OR Breast Cancer OR Lung Cancer, etc.... A cure for Cancer is like a cure for disease in general too slanted....

 

[DeepZenPill]

Pretty much agree with CircusGirl.

If you wanted a real comparison, you should have gone for AIDS vs Prostate Cancer OR Breast Cancer OR Lung Cancer, etc.... A cure for Cancer is like a cure for disease in general too slanted....

Not necessarily. Although my knowledge of cancer development is limited, if we had a way to stop those cell mutations from taking place, then we would be able to stop all cancers from forming. If I'm not mistaken, all cancers are a result of many mutations in cells, which then multiply.

But I really don't think it matters either way. When we find a cure for these two big killers, some new disease will crop up. Like it or not, diseases are population control. It's very idealistic to think that we'll have a cure for every disease in the future. If that ever happened we would then face the bigger problem of diminishing natural resources with a booming population.

And before anyone flames me, I've lost many family members and friends to cancer. I'm not saying the population control bit just for the shock value.

 

[J Nicholas]

Aids isn't anywhere near the death sentence it used to be. Cancer sucks dick. Why the poll? You gonna cure one?

 

[CoBra666]

cancer, we can do with less mos