From: der_ft._ike-AT-gmx.net
Subject: re: Disability and anarchism (was Re: baby food)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1982 02:24:31 +0100


Greetings

Jerald wrote:
"I don't think most of us would still be alive today without modern
medicine.  Vaccines, appendectomies, germ theory, snake bite serum,
c-sections, etc. have saved most of us from a rather nasty death.  And
if society did not instinctively desire to take care of those in need,
medicine probably would not exist.  After all, if we as a society
believed in survival of the fittest individual and instinctively let the
infirm die, we would have no need or desire for medicine."

I don't completely agree with this last conclusion, at least to a part we
have medicine out of a desire for immortality and therefore out of a quite
self-centered desire, the existence of this probably pretty strong desire
can be 'proved' in the whole cosmetic industry and in some stories about
'fountains of youth'... only to be exact:)

Diversity and Unity

Marius

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Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

--Willis Harman