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Quote by: SublimeOne  The idea of natural selection is where a species slowly adapts as organisms with relatively bad genes die off as organisms with relatively good genes live and procreate, making more organisms with relatively good genes.
Now that we have medicine, people who are born sickly, lives long enough to procreate anyways as they won't die off very easily. Evolutionarily, that's bad. That would slow the evolution of humans, since bad genes would still be around, with medicines constantly being discovered to help them stay alive.
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You left out prolonging the human life span costs us average citizens more each day. People are only living longer in the final stages of life, lingering on while doing nothing but consuming, while providing nothing back to society.
Not that I support the eskimo shove them out in the ice idea but why should be really be focusing on prolonging the life of people once they move into the age of body deterioration.