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Re:Woman with Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in ... by chiefalchemist on Saturday December 02, 2017 @05:59PM (#15834724)
So cure (?) a problem for a handful of rich Westerners is The Most Important medical problem in the world right now? Seems to me you're overlooking other, far more significant (in terms of total numbers) suffering.

The people thinking what you're thinking must be very young or have some strange sociopathy.

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Re:Woman with Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in ... by robbrown451 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @06:07PM (#15834789)
Are you suggesting that everyone in the world concentrate on one problem at a time?

Who said this was the most important problem anyway?

Are you, personally, working on solving a particularly important problem?

Most people in the world aren't solving problems anyway, other than getting money from other people's wallets into their own.

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Re:Woman with Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in ... by chiefalchemist on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:07PM (#15898365)
> Are you suggesting that everyone in the world concentrate on one problem at a time?

Not at all. If I'm supposing anything is that the word priorities is a word most people don't know but should.

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Re:Woman with Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in ... by ianai on Saturday December 02, 2017 @06:12PM (#15834815)
Choosing this place to make a line on medical funding or even just societal preferences seems pretty absurd. The economy does not work in absolutes nor with firm regard to societal well being or even marginal valuation. There are so many other worthy critiques to make before getting to the granularity of reproduction.
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Re:Woman with Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in ... by wyager on Saturday December 02, 2017 @06:05PM (#15834772)
Humans are allowed to work on more than one problem at a time.
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