Reply #23: And lots of people AREN'T alive today because they got the diseases

[LeftishBrit]

You sound like the people who say, 'In MY community we stood on our own two feet and never asked for handouts from the government, and it made me the man I am today, and no else should get any help or welfare either!'

But maybe your living in a small community is in fact relevant. In a small community, there is generally a more limited set of diseases to which one needs immunity, than if one is meeting up with a wide variety of new people and their germs all the time.