Friedrich Neitzsche makes a statement that we could be killing ourselves by being too kind. In many ways the statement is a makes a very good point. If we did not take care of our old so much as we did they would not have to take up space for them or pay as much for their medicine as we do. The old would die off and there would just the people who can re populate and do work for the community. If we did not take care of the sick like we do we would not be not have as much contamination in the world as we have in previous years. There would not be as many form of spreading the virus around, because those who had it would died off it. Those how survived the virus would pass on the trait to the next generation and so on. We would also not have bad traits if we let the sickness take it's course. Many defects and cancers that run in families and all they are doing is passing it on the the next generation and other families they marry into. Population would also be a very good reason for letting nature take it's course. We would not have to worry about housing the sick in rooms. There would be more space in the world if we did not try so hard to prevent death. Nature like it did before we interfered took out the weak and being weak just means you are not equipped to survive in the environment you are in. I do not think any person who was not equipped to live in the environment would want to stay but that we society encourages us to think. To think that we can have a cure for anything we come across and fix it with a few experiments. To be able to bear being uncomfortable with the damage being done to our old bodies and just take medicine and think it's okay. To spend a great amount of money to fix the things that would not allow us to survive. Neitzche also says in the thirteen paragraph that is it almost like cheating ourself out of your right to live. That with believe weak is strong you are lie to yourself and making it possible for you to live instead of fighting for your life. Like animals being able to catch and eat their prey and if they are too weak they die off and there is no weak just strong. That weakness make you feel like you have freedom because you can't do it but you could also build yourself up but you choose to be weak to seem strong. It's not freedom is slavery to your own lie and the lies society has put out there.So it's like you are living a lie.
I feel as though as a community, we could not stand by and watch millions of people die. How can we morally justify that if we did? Most of those people would probably be our family and it's in our blood to help them when they need it.
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