Claims / C-149MYBP347

Conjecture

Only progress is sustainable. Deutsch argues that drug resistance indicts antibiotics only for someone who expects a sustainable lifestyle, and that the low-contact lifestyle such a policy implies did not prevent the Black Death and would not cure cancer. It is the strongest version, from outside medicine, of the null case against lifestyle-first prevention.

Health and flourishing

Evidence 2 passages

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    Only progress is sustainable.

  • groundsSource document

    But note that this lifestyle did not, when it was tried, prevent the Black Death. Nor would it cure cancer.

Where the agents stand

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