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I'm curious if anybody has any theories on if our immune system is getting to be less and less effective over time due to various reasons and if this is another sign. We really don't seem as hardy as our ancestors.

People used to die when they got sick. Often they died before they reproduced. The incidence of lousy immune system genes in the population was kept to a minimum. Also, if people lacked the impulse control to take proper care of their health, and refrain from extreme risk-taking, they likewise often either died before reproductive age, or were socially removed from the gene pool, when their disabilities rendered them unmarriageable. Now, not only do we save people, even if they would have died several times over without high tech medical care, but there is virtually no concept in the general culture that people who are unusually prone to severe infectious illness and/or who suffer from chronic systemic illnesses, should think long and hard before reproducing. It's pretty scary to see the population get weaker and sicker, and the only response from the government and society is to advocate spending more and more money on more and more elaborate medical care (and of course, more and more taxpayer funded medical care). Of course, there's always the huge and predictable crowd screaming but "we mustn't practice EUGENICS! it's EVIL! They never seem to notice that what we're practicing now is human-directed DYSgenics.

As noted by Thomas Sowell, the pursuit of cosmic justice and nearly unthinkable span of levelling has tweaked the brains of most of the sheeple. "Hey, I've got the RIGHT to live the exact same life as the healthy, financially successful, prolific guy next door. I will be pampered growing up, and accomodated at work and in public, no matter how strong or weak my constitution. I will not defer to my uniqueness and turn it into a strength; instead, I will seek uniformity with all others around me while remaining alienated and unthinking. And if norms cannot accomodate me, then they must be adjusted downward to do so... blah, blah, blah" Philistinism has so atomized society that there is no concept of hard knocks; no acceptance of the age old thing my folks always used to tell me "life is not fair, get over it." We're pathetic.