[thaumasiotes]

I don't get the logic. The division limit is a defense against cancer in the same way that equipping your home with a selfdestruct button is a defense against burglars. Getting cancer is better than preemptively dying because you might or might not have gotten cancer.

[eob]

You're comparing things of different scales. Your body has many cells, but cancer in one can take down the whole system. It's more like a self destruct button on each AWS machine bacause they have a nasty habit of propagating a worm that spreads across the rest of the data center

[lamuerteflaca]

Getting cancer before you reproduce is not good for the species.

[thaumasiotes]

Huh? There's no relationship there. If you commit suicide to avoid getting cancer, it will be just as impossible to reproduce. If you've already reproduced at that point, that will still be true when you develop cancer.