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> Without death and scarcity we could never have evolved.

Without disease, we would have never evolved an immune system. Therefore we shouldn't try to cure disease.

I think the flaw is very clear in this analogy: human ingenuity and science is better than evolution by natural selection in pretty much every way. Now that we've evolved science, we no longer need evolution by natural selection.




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