disease
Requiring by law, a predetermined level of basic
financial capability to become a parent will ensure that children are not born
into poverty. This would make it more likely that they can buy medicines in case
of disease, live in sanitary conditions, are less likely to go hungry and
shelterless and would have access to better quality education and information.
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To conceive, deliver and raise a child you need not
have any qualification. You do not need the qualification of basic financial
capability, which is why poverty exists in the world. You do not need education,
which is why ignorance exists in the world. You do not need shelter, which is
why the homeless exist. You do not need health, which is why disease exists. You
do not need food, which is why hunger exists. You do not need drinking water,
which is why unquenched thirst exists.
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Simple. We are human beings. We can’t be born in slums.
We can’t be born in crime-infested, hostile neighborhoods. We can’t be born in
disease-infected, unsanitary environments. We can and should only be born in
financially secure environments, which can take care of our health, food,
shelter, education and protect us from both the influence and effects of crime,
violence and pollution.
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With poverty comes disease, crime, injustice, pain,
sorrow, overcrowding and more poverty. And all of it is going to spread and make
itself the accepted standard of living.
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The diseases that cause humans to be weak are not
cancer or heart disease. We know what it is already. It is a hot climate, a
suppressive environment and culture, and a lack of money to conquer those
conditions. Not preventing the birth of humans into these conditions means not
checking the spread of the diseases that make humanity weak.
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The poor often have little protection against crime or
social injustice committed against them and they are often the real victims of
unemployment, crime, diseases, epidemics and ecological disasters. With the
growing population and the consequent growing shortage of the basic necessities
of life, the poor will be likely to find themselves in much worse living
conditions than those they live in today, with the passage of time.
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Certain diseases can affect you even if you lived in a
safe and clean environment, had perfect nutrition and were vaccinated against
preventable diseases. But since most diseases are preventable, you could avoid
them if you lived in healthy conditions. In the same manner, if the whole world
lived in healthy conditions, we could eliminate all preventable diseases. For
that to happen, every household needs money. Money is needed to protect the
members of the household from disease and illness. Money is needed to live in a
safe and clean environment. If we ensure that no one becomes a parent unless
they have attained basic financial capability, we can be sure that the next
generation will not be forced to contract preventable diseases and illnesses. We
can be sure that the next generation will have access to the means to prevent
and fight disease and illness. With this step, we would be gradually eliminating
diseases and illnesses that are preventable, leaving more resources, money, time
and energy to spend on finding cures or preventive measures for incurable
diseases. In time, we could hence achieve a disease-free world.
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Why do people die of diseases that can be cured? They
cannot afford the price tags on the medicines required to cure them. Medicines
are costly. The most valuable medicines, the ones that can save lives are often
the costly ones. We may finally find cheaper alternatives, but till we find such
cheap alternatives, people will die of curable diseases. Will people who don’t
have money for food and shelter be able to buy a medicine if afflicted by a
deadly disease? Improper sanitation due to lack of money would increase their
possibility of contracting deadly diseases. Would education on how to prevent
diseases be of much use to the person who cannot afford to implement the
measures to protect him from the disease? If the PFC law is not enforced
immediately in all countries, people will continue to die of curable diseases
till cheap medicines for all deadly diseases are discovered. If we fail in
discovering such medicines, then people will continue to die helplessly of
curable diseases.
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There is no meaning anymore in achieving progress or
finding cures for diseases if the majority of humanity cannot reach it. There is
sense only in preventing life that cannot be sustained, consequently ensuring
that the fruits of progress reach all. Requiring basic financial capability to
become a parent will ensure that majority of newborns are financially secure,
that is, that they can buy medicines in the case of an emergency, live in
sanitary conditions, are less likely to go hungry and shelter less, would have
access to better quality education and information and above all would not have
a great need to use resources and technologies that are polluting.
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