Lots of people never face cancer and they seem pretty human. Why would it be different if nobody ever faced cancer? Why wasn’t it different when people stopped facing starvation, or rickets?
Everyone has cancer 24⁄7, at least a few cancerous cells exist in even the healthiest people at any given time. It just doesn’t become a noticeable problem for some portion of the population before they pass away.
To actually do away with all cancerous cells, in the literal sense, would definitely imply they are not ‘us’, at least not any more than some shapeshifting alien taking human form can be considered so.
Lots of people never face cancer and they seem pretty human. Why would it be different if nobody ever faced cancer? Why wasn’t it different when people stopped facing starvation, or rickets?
Everyone has cancer 24⁄7, at least a few cancerous cells exist in even the healthiest people at any given time. It just doesn’t become a noticeable problem for some portion of the population before they pass away.
To actually do away with all cancerous cells, in the literal sense, would definitely imply they are not ‘us’, at least not any more than some shapeshifting alien taking human form can be considered so.