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- Oct 12, 2021
Well that pretty much hits me where I live...I was told by a professor in college that you can get any research funded if you tie it in to any possible tedious link to cancer cures/treatments.
The shit I do is pretty much pure research, there is the potential for non-invasive cancer treatments in what I do, but right now it's really just looking into if we can more accurately model certain compounds and then develop a tool set to give to other researchers. The whole I'm saving lives shit really doesn't emotionally do anything for me, quality of life versus quantity to some extent. Why go through a cancer treatment that will eradicate a cancer, but leave you at deaths door?
There's nobility in saving a life sure, but at some point it's like risking a rescue team to save one person on top of a mountain. You can't save everyone, the ancients knew this. The Greeks wrote about how the noblest and wisest thing a society could do is plan for the future knowing that they'll never have the comforts their children and grandchildren might have, right now it's old faggots wanting to burn the world so they can die warm.