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by fnid 6005 days ago
What if, like physics, each "improvement" to mankind has an equal and opposite negative impact on the world?

If we think about benefit and harm, these are usually with respect to energy. It takes time to heal wounds, it takes more energy to overcome injury. Benefits, like the car for example, enable humans to expend less energy, but they take more from the environment.

If we extrapolate that to the world around us, then for example, taking a prescription drug will have a corresponding negative impact on the environment.

If what I suggest here is true, then any improvement we could make to human evolution is merely an illusion. Perhaps the improvements we do make are merely improvements, or perceived to be improvements, because we can't see the harm created somewhere else, like the destruction of landscape, deaths in mines, pollution, etc...

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I suspect the truth is somewhere in between what you are saying and the utopians I was talking about.