Thanks aaron. Yes I was referring to not developing treatment possibly being better than developing treatment. But I clearly need to learn more about the malaria situation.
By allowing evolution to do its thing. But i suspect I just don’t understand the issue properly, given aaron’s answer.
Re malaria evolving: yeah I get that but we we could easily get into the antibiotics type war (I.e. more rapid evolution) if we choose/end up with the treatment route. Evolution is great at dealing with changing environments, I’m not convinced human ‘intervention’ is better, and can see 100 ways it could backfire.
I’m all for reducing suffering, but I am concerned we’re too short-sited and/or arrogant to really do the right thing.
I definitely need to learn more about the malaria situation though.
Thanks aaron. Yes I was referring to not developing treatment possibly being better than developing treatment. But I clearly need to learn more about the malaria situation.
By allowing evolution to do its thing. But i suspect I just don’t understand the issue properly, given aaron’s answer.
Re malaria evolving: yeah I get that but we we could easily get into the antibiotics type war (I.e. more rapid evolution) if we choose/end up with the treatment route. Evolution is great at dealing with changing environments, I’m not convinced human ‘intervention’ is better, and can see 100 ways it could backfire.
I’m all for reducing suffering, but I am concerned we’re too short-sited and/or arrogant to really do the right thing.
I definitely need to learn more about the malaria situation though.