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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
My view of evolution is fine (and I have the university grades to prove it). Natural selection is one of the mechanisms that guides evolution, and the one that Darwin (the guy in your avatar) became famous for articulating. If individuals are not genetically suited for survival in their particular environment and die out before they can successfully reproduce, then keeping their genes active among the population gene pool probably isn't in the best interest of the population (especially if an epidemic did break out).
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Hey, I thought we were exchanging short sentences which made broad misleading generalizations, not having a discussion. But I prefer discussions, so that's good.
You've included a value judgment in your paragraph, that what natural selection would determine in the absence of our brain is what is right/just/moral/preferable/whatever. That value judgment isn't evolution, it's something else.
And of course we do have a brain, and can make vaccines, and that is part of the equation as well. So even in a sick social engineering survival of the fittest scheme administering vaccines is in the best interest of the population, otherwise intelligence would be lost since it wasn't being selected for.