Reality Boxes¶
Acknowledgement of a conservation law is typically a reliable indication of realistic analysis. There’s a notable example here (embedded in an important article):
In the past, individuals could suffer death or disability due to
small genetic defects, for example in their immune systems, for
which modern medicine now routinely substitutes and which welfare
cushions. But even modern medicine and welfare have their limits.
W.D. Hamilton stated that when the misery resulting from mutations
grows too great to bear — for medical, economic or humanitarian
reasons — the load will be reduced, either
naturally or artificially — painfully through elevated rates of
mortality, or painlessly through eugenics.
[My emphasis]
The slogan It’s going to happen one way or the other is engraved upon the gateway to the Temple of Gnon.