Potential cure for HIV discovered

[ArmyDragon92A]

I'm kinda of torn on this...the humane part of me wants to embrace this as a wonderful tool for ending the suffering for a large portion of people and restoring a bit of happiness.

The logical, colder side of me is bitter about the potential discovery. HIV/AIDS, it believes, is simply an inevitable result of overpopulation and crowding. If man can sidestep that natural checks and balances of population growth, is he doing more harm than good? What will be the next inevitable disease to wipe out portions of populations? Could this have negative connotations down the road?

The combination of joy and worry kinda sucks. :/

Since when is HIV/AIDS natural?

 

[Carcharodon]

Yeah, now China does, because they've become such an over crowded country that a law was passed limiting the amount of kids you can have.

Right. Actually, last I checked it was portions of Africa and I believe India that were having some large population growth. Mexico is encountering growth as well. The trend appears to be (if you look at charts like I had to for an assignment...what a nightmare) that the wealthier nations have started to have negative growth.

 

[Carcharodon]

Since when is HIV/AIDS natural?

...unless you believe it was manmade, it's natural.

Besides, I wasn't referencing HIV/AIDS specifically so much as the system of checks and balances with respect to populations. I believe that the rapid spread of HIV is a product of such systems.

 

[Sloth7d]

Right. Actually, last I checked it was portions of Africa and I believe India that were having some large population growth. Mexico is encountering growth as well. The trend appears to be (if you look at charts like I had to for an assignment...what a nightmare) that the wealthier nations have started to have negative growth.

Thats because in Africa they let people run around naked. What'd they think would happen?

 

[Carcharodon]

Thats because in Africa they let people run around naked. What'd they think would happen?

Oh, god...I never realized.

 

[ArmyDragon92A]

...unless you believe it was manmade, it's natural.

Besides, I wasn't referencing HIV/AIDS specifically so much as the system of checks and balances with respect to populations. I believe that the rapid spread of HIV is a product of such systems.

"Believe" ? heh. Research as far back as you can kiddo. Trust me. You'll be disgusted in the human race even more so.

 

[Sloth7d]

Oh, god...I never realized.

I know if I realized sooner I would have been visited Africa.t:

....or maybe I'll join a nudist colony. That'd be awesome....unless its a sausage fest.

 

[L.A.]

meh, HIV is overrated! Cancer is the killer!

 

[Carcharodon]

"Believe" ? heh. Research as far back as you can kiddo. Trust me. You'll be disgusted in the human race even more so.

I've looked at the conspiracy theories, thanks. It doesn't change the fact that HIV exists and its spread is density dependent, a function of increasing population.

Thus, once again, the mechanisms that regulate population size and growth remain a natural phenomenon, regardless of the origins of a specific disease.

 

[Darkdd]

I'm kinda of torn on this...the humane part of me wants to embrace this as a wonderful tool for ending the suffering for a large portion of people and restoring a bit of happiness.

The logical, colder side of me is bitter about the potential discovery. HIV/AIDS, it believes, is simply an inevitable result of overpopulation and crowding. If man can sidestep that natural checks and balances of population growth, is he doing more harm than good? What will be the next inevitable disease to wipe out portions of populations? Could this have negative connotations down the road?

The combination of joy and worry kinda sucks. :/

Well, we kinda threw off the balance with the invention of healthcare...

 

[Speedball]

Well, we kinda threw off the balance with the invention of healthcare...

Healthcare's not realyy an invention. People have been caring for other people since the dawn of rational thought. It's the evolution of how we care for them that is different.

 

[Halcohol]

Well, we kinda threw off the balance with the invention of healthcare...

Back in the day it was the Black Death, or a major flu pandemic, or even tuberculosis. As time goes by, we find ways to counteract many of these "natural checks and balances", but nature cannot be repressed.

New and more deadly viruses are everywhere around the world, just a slight mutation away from becoming the next great killer of mankind. However, I don't believe we'll need any help to destroy ourselves.

 

[Spider-Bite]

I'm kinda of torn on this...the humane part of me wants to embrace this as a wonderful tool for ending the suffering for a large portion of people and restoring a bit of happiness.

The logical, colder side of me is bitter about the potential discovery. HIV/AIDS, it believes, is simply an inevitable result of overpopulation and crowding. If man can sidestep that natural checks and balances of population growth, is he doing more harm than good? What will be the next inevitable disease to wipe out portions of populations? Could this have negative connotations down the road?

The combination of joy and worry kinda sucks. :/

I don't feel torn. I believe the human race would be better off not finding a cure untill about 50 years from now. we aren't prepared for this. AIDS sucks now, but imagine how bad world war 3 being fought over natural resources will be. Not to mention people in Africa are starving as it is.

 

[tzarinna]

Bring it, so I can get some already.

 

[jaguarr]

This is encouraging news. Here's hoping something good comes out of it.

jag

 

[samurai black]

I'm not aware of the true origin of HIV/AIDS, but if it is in fact a man made virus, then i suspect we've had this cure of some form of it for quite sometime. The thought that it could possibly become mass produced now is what's good news.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

The best way to slow population is educate and empower women around the world.

The world is better off without AIDS.

how about a Male version of the pill?

 

[jaguarr]

how about a Male version of the pill?

I believe that exists already, though I'm not real fond of the manipulation of the male hormonal system in that fashion as it's more fragile than the female's it would appear in this day and age where more and more guys are having to get on HRT at an earlier age.

jag

 

[Abaddon]

I didn't even know men undergo HRT.

 

[jaguarr]

I didn't even know men undergo HRT.

Yeah. A lot of them. It used to be confined to guys in their 50's who started experiencing drops in testosterone (to the point that it causes depression, chronic fatigue, low sex drive and other issues). In the last 20 years, though, more and more younger men are experiencing problems, usually attributed to early onset hypogonadism. It's really common place and a lot of guys in their mid to late thirties don't even know they're experiencing it. It's easily treatable, either through Testosterone Replacement Therapy or HCG therapy (a type of Human Growth Hormone that stimulates LH production in the leydig cells, thereby increasing natural testosterone production). HCG is preferable for guys who want to have kids still, because TRT can pretty much kill sperm production.

jag