That insulin is an industry at all is enough to condemn the West to permanent jihad. May the entire employee directory of Eli Lilly be rendered into life-saving hormones forever.
in the same breath he says letting people have insulin is a similar problem
Even if medical progress could be maintained without the rest of the technological system, it would by itself bring certain evils. Suppose for example that a cure for diabetes is discovered. People with a genetic tendency to diabetes will then be able to survive and reproduce as well as anyone else. Natural selection against genes for diabetes will cease and such genes will spread throughout the population. (This may be occurring to some extent already, since diabetes, while not curable, can be controlled through use of insulin.) The same thing will happen with many other diseases susceptibility to which is affected by genetic degradation of the population.
"If a cure was developed for people with this condition, then they would be able to reproduce more people who could be easily cured. There can only be one conclusion from this: billions must die"
"Quick! Cast aspersions on stem cells as being harvested by the evil CCP from forcibly aborted fetuses! And maybe tie this in with some of that antivaxx stuff that is doing so well"
Some rag few years ago posted atrocity propaganda of evil China making medicine from hamsters, but was immediately shot down by western doctor explaining that it's not exactly made from live hamsters and it's standard procedure worldwide for decades.
My friend has a dipshit antivax relative who believes that scientists have a cure for every disease but they won't sell the cure so they can make more money treating symptoms.
You'd think he would latch onto this as proof. Except in this case he'd be on the side of Big Insulin because he thinks China is evil.
My friend has a dipshit antivax relative who believes that scientists have a cure for every disease but they won't sell the cure so they can make more money treating symptoms.