Which one would you pick out of these two options if you really had to pick only one?

[Anonymous]

1) To find a cure for all types of mental illnesses

2) to find a cure for all types of cancer.

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Cancer is terrible but if I had to pick I would still prefer more to fully cure all mental illnesses like depression, PTSD, anxiety, bipolar, sczhiophrenia, psychopathy, sociopathy and ADHD etc

[OneViewpoint]

Excellent question and a tough call. My gut feel is that mental illness causes more human suffering and deaths. So I'll bet on fixing that to do ore good than curing cancer.

[strateguy632]

more urgent to heal mental illness. depression anxiety etc.

[Anonymous]

1. Find a cure for mental illness.

And i have a hard time saying this because cancer touches just about everyone's life in some way. But i feel like we're much closer to a cure for cancer than we are for mental illness. And knowing people who take different medications for different mental illnesses i've seen how hit and miss it is. They take a medication. Sometimes, it takes a while to get it dialed in just right. Then for whatever reason it just stops working. And assuming the person has the wherewithal to know they operating a bit off, maybe a lot off and seek help, or have someone to advocate help for them then they do. But not every can and not everyone does. And the point is even if they do it feels like it's going back to square one. Add to this that the side effects can seem equally as horrible as the illness. Which is worse? Being out of your mind and not knowing it. Or being medicated and controlled but feeling like you're a zombie just marching through life. I can't evwn imagine how mentally draining all this is.

[jennifer_bloom]

Cute cancer. But I believe many cancers are caused by bad karma and might be preventable with religious intervention. Like I believe the reason around 40-55% of Canadians get cancer is that we are exposed to so much pleasure as children such as trips to the beach, trips to the restaurant, ice cream, pizza parties, sleepovers, vacations to Disney, cartoons, puppet shows etc…. The Buddhists believe pleasure leads to suffering and I agree with that. If I had kids, we would never eat lobster, we would eat rice with water with bitter vegetables.

[Calyptomaniac]

I'd cure cancer. That often results in death and the current "cure" still is terribly draining for the people who survive it and it often comes back. Mental illnesses are more manageable with medication and can be somewhat controlled in many cases and don't result in nearly as many deaths

[jshm2]

Mental illnesses.

The problem with cancer is that there will always be another form of cancer that develops, regardless of cure. Hence why they are not trying to cure cancer, but develop ways to detect it earlier.

Mental illnesses on the other hand are not really on the same level as there is no one thing you can "cure". So it's a more complex challenge.

[Danny_dan92]

Cancer.




Cancer legitimately kills more people






Mental illness can be addressed by not ignoring it like many people are and are rather embracing it

[OneViewpoint]

Really? Hitler and Stalin alone killed about 50 -85 million people. I'd say mental illness is neck and neck with cancer for the winners trophy in the dead bodies competition. It's a tough call for me.

[KostasKouvalis]

The first one. Mentally ill people pose a danger to the public. Cancer patients don't

[DonaldDarko]

Cure cancer.

[exitseven]

cure cancer.

[Dargil]

Cancer.