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What are some small things we should change about the human body? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LesserAbe to c/asklemmy

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Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

No periods
No balding
No nausea
No body odor
Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting

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[–] KpntAutismus 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

there's almost a vaccine for that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

You can not have a cure for cancer, but a cancer. I promise I am not trying to be pedantic here. Cancers are so different from one another, that a single cure for breast cancer might not even work on all breast cancer.

[–] HerrBeter 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"is curing patients a viable business model?"

[–] TheInsane42 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nop, preventing them from dying is though.

[–] Bakachu 2 points 10 months ago

This is so fucked up but yeah I can see them settling for research on a drug or treatment that just keeps you from reaching Stage 4 to where you become a lifelong consumer of said medical company.