This cruel universe I love so dearly

[Purple Rabbit]

Oh yeah, and Purple.

When we have cured diseases we've have made this a better place, for us

That is also an unhealthy state-of-mind, I fear. I don't think we able to, as you put it 'cure diseases'. All of them!?! I think we have more now than ever before, so we are going in the wrong direction. This cannot be a better place for us by that silly, unreal action. We need to cure the human disease of lack-of-compassion, of de-humanizing each other, hurting each other out of fear and supposed competition. That is a much better and attainable goal. Curing all the diseases is so flawed a thought, and it shows how you are looking at the world through human eyes (for which I am sure you can be forgiven).

You mix up being able to identify diseases with being ignorant of diseases. We've effectively done away with a number of diseases, we've found therapies for a great number of them, and we've learned to prevent a lot of them. In the process of understanding diseases we've learned about different causes and more detailed differences relevant for treatment. Effectively diagnosis has become more precise. So it is to be expected that the number of diseases we can actually talk about has grown. Saying it is "a silly action" really is an amoral statement that shows lack of any understanding what medical care is about and indeed lack of any human compassion.

Think of this discussion when you or your close ones are in hospital. Sooner or later we all will become dependent on medical care. The pills you will be served as a result of years of investigations, the advanced surgery that most of us will need some day, the state of the art research and diagnosing techniques that will be able to identify problems in early stages, it will all be available to you thanks to the efforts of people that believe in medical care in this life instead of waiting for salvation in the next.