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MattholomewCup · 4325 days ago · link · · parent · post: Will the Real Lance Armstrong Please Stand Up?
Do you find appendectomies objectionable? What about vaccination? Glasses? Every major advance in medicine has been making us steadily better, healthier, and more capable. Indeed, it is in our very nature to improve ourselves, through our technological know-how, or through the natural tools of evolution. We are not the same humans from 10,000 years ago at a genetic level, because our ancestors survived and passed on their genes (and memes, we can't neglect the value of strong ideas) to make us, and our world. Our imperfections are regularly sanded down by time and technology, your own included.