What we forget ...

As I'm listening to a Radio 4 program about genetically adding genes to humans to prevent disease I found myself asking why we go to such lengths to cure some diseases, and why we find them so abhorrent and unacceptable in our modern world. I then remembered that their very existence was not to make our lives a misery, but to keep the majority healthy. If we were left to natures ravages  this would happen as Darwin new, though even he wrestled with the idea after the death of his offspring. Yes, disease is there for a reason,  and to go to such lengths to rid us of its blight could unleash bigger problems down the line. Of course Im a complete hypocrite saying this on the highest level as anyone who knows me will be now be thinking ! But its still true, everything on this earth and off it has a function however much it hurts us.