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Question 693: Why does mankind always set itself only such tasks as it is able to solve?

[32] Gog: response to GDA.   In response to message [30] I would counter that cancer is not a good example. In part because by saying that we cannot solve cancer is also saying that we cannot solve death. Death is not a problem, it is a reality. Therefore the solution is not solving cancer, but rather limiting the effects of cancer. One could think of a graph as it approaches its asymptote. As a disease, cancer is well understood and well treated in our society, I would assert that the solution to cancer has already been found. Stay out of the sun, eat well, excercise, pay attention to any changes in your body.

Hans: Good point, but you don't even have to make your argument dependent on how successful cancer research has been. People know what methods to use how to tackle the problem. Even if they have not found a solution yet one can certainly say that the methods they use make them “able” to solve the problem.

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