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>>bondar+(OP)
> It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them.

I wouldn't say so at all. Poor eyesight carries on smartly. Baldness. I enjoy both.

But an old story about the controller code for a surface-to-air missile comes to mind.

Someone looking at the memory allocator spots an obvious resource leak: "This code is going to crash."

The reply was that, while the point was theoretically valid, it was irrelevant, since the system itself would detonate long before resource exhaustion became an issue.

So too prostate cancer back in the day: war, famine and plague were keeping the lifespan well below the threshold of every man's time bomb.

>>smitty+Q7

  > It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them.

Your appendix and gallbladder would like a word with you ;^)

>>gavinr+F8
Wisdom teeth too.

>>lostlo+W9
I once read that wisdom teeth don't fit anymore only because we use forks and knives now. Previously we would tear our food with our teeth, always widening our pallet.

I couldn't find the source just now (in the 30 seconds I searched for it), but I always thought it was an interesting idea.