In modern society one thing that we have become amazingly dependant on is medicine. Its benifits of curing us and our loved ones from disease are truly grand. Not only does medicine seem to improve our quality of life but it also is shown to prolong life as well. However, medicine is working against the quality of life in many ways as well. Medicine may very well pose greater problems on society and the human race than the immediate problems medicine intends to fix. One major problem posed by medicine is deevolution. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution, we can clearly can see that medicine is blocking the natural system in which individuals with flawed genes are removed from the gene pool. However cruel the idea of allowing indivuduals to perish because they are not perfect, the consiquences of nourishing their reproduction could prove to be drastic. Medicine also poses the problem of naturally making us dependant on it.
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