This is an issue that has come up recently:
The WHO (not the band, the World Health Organization) is going over whether or not to destroy smallpox for good.
While this issue might sound simple, it really isn't.
On one hand smallpox is a disease that no good has come from. Lately it has been beaten and so destroying it would be one small step for man and one giant leap of health for mankind. Come on, is there really any argument for a disease that threatens people to exist?
Why, actually, yes.
For now science has beaten back smallpox so there seems to be no worry about it. But what if it comes back? If people's immune systems aren't prepared for smallpox they will die. Should we really allow people to be put in such a predicament?
Myself, either option sounds bad and I'm glad I'm not the one that has to make this decision.
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