General Discussion

Like I said in another reply, it's not an either/or thing.

We need intelligent, well trained, committed people to advance medical science so we can find effective cures and treatments for the various types of cancers (it's not one singular disease with one singular cure, folks).

We need well designed roads, safe cars, and well trained attentive drivers who are not intoxicated to reduce the daily massacre on the streets of Earth.

We need a culture that is not angry and not greedy and not hostile and dismissive of the socially awkward so that perhaps people will quit shooting each other.

And when someone, be they Hassan in Tikrit or Joey in Des Moine, decides they want to shoot, bomb, behead, etc innocents, we need well trained people with a commitment to serving the common good to stop them ASAP.