everyone: i have a question

[Springsteen]

To answer the second part, I'm not saying humanity wouldn't have been able to strive, but I certainly think it may have progressed slower (communication) because we didn't have it. It's not the be all and end all, but it certainly was pretty crucial.

 

[HK]

In response to the rep - absolutely nothing posted here is actually essential to human survival. If the species just wants to live, all it needs is things to eat, something to drink, and a sharp stick.

I wonder if our progression would be very different without the condom, or other effective methods of contraception. What would life be like if sex were still laden with the very possible eventuality of children? Would we still be living in a very sexually reserved society where sex was only for married couples, or would we have moved into a stage where children are no longer seen as something you should only try and have with a life partner? Would kids with multiple partners now be the norm?

 

[Abcinthia]

I didn't get a second question. Obviously because my answer was amazing

 

[itsmeJonB]

In a world with no vaccines but birth control we'd be extinct as a society.

By the way statistically speaking the water purification system was the invention that benefitted humanity the most. Before this existed many countried believed drinking tea made man live longer, which was partially true because the water was boiled. This system added an average of 40 years to the human life span.
Thered be no use for any other invention if we were all dead by 37 anyway.

 

[HK]

In a world with no vaccines but birth control we'd be extinct as a society.

I didn't mention vaccines at all, I wasn't saying that we could somehow survive with zero progression except in birth control.

 

[itsmeJonB]

I didn't mention vaccines at all, I wasn't saying that we could somehow survive with zero progression except in birth control.

Your implication was that no one's answer was more important than the last.
The reason I picked on birth control is because it literally stunts human reproduction, the one thing nature instilled in us as the key way of survival

 

[HK]

Your implication was that no one's answer was more important than the last.

Well technically it's true, there are thousands of species that still live in trees and eat their food straight from the branches, and they're not dying out it's just that we've evolved past that point now.

 

[Pet Sounds]

In a world with no vaccines but birth control we'd be extinct as a society.

By the way statistically speaking the water purification system was the invention that benefitted humanity the most. Before this existed many countried believed drinking tea made man live longer, which was partially true because the water was boiled. This system added an average of 40 years to the human life span.
Thered be no use for any other invention if we were all dead by 37 anyway.

"In a world with no vaccines but birth control we'd be extinct as a society."

No, we wouldn't.

And my answer, germ theory, covers vaccinations, water purifications, penicillin, etc.. So it is the correct answer.

 

[itsmeJonB]

Germ theory is a discovery not an invention.

 

[Pet Sounds]

Germ theory is a discovery not an invention.

Not really. Germ Theory is an abstraction created by man.

 

[BornReady]

the only real benefit humanity can prosper from is survival, so answers that ultimately were a luxury rank low

There are fates worse than death.

 

[itsmeJonB]

There are fates worse than death.

For an individual perhaps

 

[Niamh]

so is vaccines the answer?

 

[itsmeJonB]

Water purification system