Quote Originally Posted by jcustis View Post
We are campaigning against AIDS on the African continent. How does increasing the lifespan of a state's or continent's population serve our national interests, assuming that the benefits of longevity only serve to increase the competition for resources across the long run.
Back in the early 80's at Edgewood Area -- where rats were still being used -- an E-4 dressed in whites (as I was leaving for Zaire) told me we were looking for a new frontier where the FDA dare not tread. Their lifespan was already significantly less than even the local CDC imagined and the line of volunteers for non-approved FDA drugs was bordering on 500 meters from the building each morning. It did serve our national interests and I presume had little to do with their longevity.