If you believe in Darwinism does that mean cancer cures smoking?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure "cure" implies a positive change.

Answer 2

a) Smoking is an activity, not a trait. What your talking about is a genetic trait that makes people susceptable to addictive drugs more than other people.

b) Whether you get addicted or not to a drug is based in a whole range of psychological issues as well as possible, not definite, genetic traits. Genetics control ONLY the physical aspects of a person. The rest is nurture, instead of nature.

c) Darwinism is fact, whether you "Believe" in it or not is immaterial, darwinian processes still happen, natural selection and adaptation is observable everywhere.

d) if there is a "Smoking gene" that makes people easily hooked on nicotine or whatever, chances are it crops up naturally through natural variation. This is the same reason the number of gay people and number of blondes and brunettes run pretty constant, because they're genetic factors that occur through natural variation at a fairly constant rate.

Finally, as a smoker, I'd ask that you don't refer to smoking as a fault in people. It's an activity people can enjoy if they want, like eating hamburgers which could cause obesity, or highly dangerous sports. If anything, darwinism will hopefully cure people who are susceptible to modern prejudices accepted by mainstream society.

Answer 3

Death cures all diseases, and until very recently people died long before the diseases of old age had a chance to cut them down. Up until the last few hundred years, the average life expectancy was around 30 years maximum, and a forty year-old was a rarity.

Even at the end of the 19th century, in Western Europe, the average life expectancy was 37.

Only now, with our fantastic medicine and general health care, has world average life expectancy risen to nearly 70. And with this shift, all kinds of diseases that evolution has never had a chance to work on before, have become widespread.

Once a person reproduces, any genes that lead to late-life breakdowns are already out in the gene pool, and natural selection can't do anything about them.

It's a telling thing to look at an autopsy of an old man. We're used to seeing meat taken from animals just a few years old, and it's plush, pink and healthy.

But old human meat is horrible stuff - stringy, yellow and nasty-looking. If someone served you a steak that looked like the inside of most adult people, you'd refuse to eat it.

We live too long, and we fall apart.

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Answer 4

Hahaha!
Great point, and technically yes. The people who choose to smoke cigarettes know the risks of doing it and then they can get cancer. Of course another thing you can say is that dying cures everything. See only those who learn that smoking cigarettes is bad for you won't pass on the tendency on to the next Generation, but then again Darwinism says that only traits necessary to survival require any evolution as well.

I suppose so, I suppose so

Answer 5

No, but if everybody smoke (or lived near chimneys) we would eventually evolve to people who were fairly resistant to smoke - that is only if the people died before they had time to have children.
Not sure what you mean by "cure." Death does a pretty good job of curing smoking.

Answer 6

idk about Darwinism, but cancer certainly cures smoking, it just may have to wait on the person to die. I've seen people smoke through their throat while they have had cancerous parts removed. It's a little bizarre to see someone put a cigarette into their throat, see that the cigarette is indeed being puffed on, and then see the smoke come out of the hole in their neck!
may peace be with you

Answer 7

well to respond to your answer about mainstream and non-mainstream 1st you do make a good point some people do argue that theres no such thing as mainstream anime but thats just an arguement 2nd when you said theres a difference between mainstream and being popular there is no difference buddy those two words have the same meaning ask anyone you know and they will tell you 3rd just because i chose the word mainstream and not popular doesnt make me ignorant its pretty much getting mad at me because i chose to use the word arachnophobia rather then fear of spiders or vise versa 4th i dont need a legitamite reason to not like a certain anime if i dont like it i dont like it but ill use naruto for example just to make you happy why do i not like naruto well the main character is ******* annoying as hell sasuke is a whiny emo douchebag and sakura is a whiny annoying ***** who just stands there and doesnt do ****. so there you go sir

Answer 8

Your question makes no sense. By the way, I believe that Darwin was right, and I suppose that cancer would cure smoking if it either led a person to break the habit or else just killed the person.

Answer 9

Obviously not, since lung cancer doesn't usually develop before one has had a chance to reproduce.

Answer 10

If you're referring to the concept of "survival of the fittest," I think you may have misconstrued it. It's not about individual survival, nor even about the survival of certain genetic traits over others. It's about survival of those who happen to be best adapted to the environment.

Cancer, like all diseases, is part of our environment. Cancer happens to babies; it happens to animals; it even happens to plants; so we know that smoking can't be the only cause of the disease.

Answer 11

Well you do eventually die from it, but the fact that smoking is not an inheritable trait means that new generations can start smoking so it won't be wiped out by killing you.