Catonic wrote:
Awesome. Now other things that can kill you and don't go away.

This always makes me wonder; almost as if the cosmic design to shrink our numbers involves disease to a large part -- AIDS, etc. It's relatively easy to pass on, and highly prevalent.

On some levels this is really bad. The clap doesn't kill you so it just turns into the gift that keeps on giving.

Catonic wrote:
Awesome. Now other things that can kill you and don't go away.

This always makes me wonder; almost as if the cosmic design to shrink our numbers involves disease to a large part -- AIDS, etc. It's relatively easy to pass on, and highly prevalent.

The nature of nature, is to distribute life. Energy is a (somewhat) constant, and as living beings, we all have a fixed amount of energy that we can use/produce, so the natural order is to distribute that energy.

Not all life, is good.

Therefore, yes, it is natures way of keeping our numbers down. Survival of the fittest (smartest, or most intelligent)

Catonic wrote:
Awesome. Now other things that can kill you and don't go away.

This always makes me wonder; almost as if the cosmic design to shrink our numbers involves disease to a large part -- AIDS, etc. It's relatively easy to pass on, and highly prevalent.

Considering that bacteria, virii, and microbes are responsible for about 90% of the Earth's formation throughout its history, then yes.

I saw a profoundly retarded man with the clap once. Got it during institutionalization. Now, all that bug needs is to get into a jail where the wardens look the other way, with so many of our population incarcertated...
A few busy prostitutes get it...
Talk about some gross, nasty stuff. The disease, the situation. Yuck. Luckily his was easy to cure.