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Originally Posted by uh-oh
I hear you but there is a reason cancer research gets 400thousand times the attention as basically everything else. Its the bigger problem.
The bigger problems should always be addressed before the minor ones. Your argument is goofy.
Im not against helping motor neuron disease, im against making it a priority when cancer should be addressed first. Just following your analogy.
But yea lets close the make believe wage gap for women while the inner city youths continue to have 0 opportunites at a better life
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I agree somewhat. It's appropriate for government to put more money/effort into solving the bigger problem, but I don't agree that the smaller problem should just sit idle until we're done with the bigger one. I'm sorry for using an analogy within an analogy but it's like diversifying an asset portfolio - you don't invest in just one thing that might have a big payoff, you spread your investments around into different areas so that you're more likely to see a gain overall.
On an individual level, I wouldn't criticize anyone for being concerned mainly with the smaller problem. Different people fight different battles according to their interests and abilities, and that's OK. People who know someone with MND will probably fund research into that before they will for cancer. That's OK. MND researchers are helping society more by doing that work than if they switched to cancer research - they know more about MND.