Could the AIDS virus be viewed as a natural way to stabilize population growth?
There is a reason for disease. As hard as the scientists work to prevent illness and death, the truth is, there is a reason for it. That reason is to prevent the population from over reaching itself. Since we are at the top of the food chain, we have very few predators. Those we do have tend to be trapped into attacking us for their own survival or are our own kind. All that is left to help the earth protect itself from what “Agent Smith” in the movie the Matrix rightly refereed to as a “Virus” are actual viruses. However we cannot consider AIDS to be a natural way of stabilization unless we begin to look upon all disease that way. This life up until the last one hundred years or so, was always a battle of the fittest. Somewhere along the line, because a mother morned the loss of a child, we all felt bad about one so young dieing so soon and set out to cure all known childhood diseases. Then we set out to keep people from dieing at all. After all, the only thing separating humanity fro