Prevention is Better than Cure --- A FAD?

A stitch in time saves nine
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

and history teaches us how valuable prevention is. I have heard it umpteen times all my life and I always believed in it.Its foolish to get into trouble if you can prevent it. But even then you find a lot of people doing it

Have you ever wondered why they do it? Scientists may link it to genes and make remarkable theories about it. Put a whole set of blame on the upbringing, attention deficit growth and so on. I too agree with all those concepts but then one more thing comes to the fore. What makes prevention so valuable? Only because you saw the havoc it causes and you have the chance to cure it or its uncurable!!

Until Small Pox showed what it can do, until AIDS reared its head and showed its lethalness, people never preferred to play it safe. I am sure that before a million people became victims of it, many people knew that there was some new epidemic on the horizon.

I think its human nature that they value prevention only when they see the side effects. A person who foresees a problem and tries to convey it to a group (that consider themselves better judges of human beings), will always end up feeling like a fool. I have been through instances, where you say something, no one responds on it and when it strikes, other observers will give their opinion for the cause and become the hero.

What causes it, I guess the old adage, Familiarity breeds contempt is very true. As people get to know each other, lots and lots of times, they encounter this situation where they feel they know better than the other.  Result is advice is a waste of words. Something people preach but never practice. If your word needs to be taken with value, you need to learn the art of communicating. When does a vaccine sell the most, when the fear of terminal disease is there. Just like that the timing of what you convey matters more than the warning.
Politicians play with uncertainity and fear the most. Simple people voice their opinion as soon as they get it whereas politicians ensure that the play ground is set; where the opinion can have mass effect, and then announce it. End result, the downfall of a good government!

Even in private firms, you find these sort of confrontational situations and straightforward people think why should they ever continue when such is the situation? Is prevention better than cure here? No its usually the dramatics of a employee resignation or lose a client or something drastically goes wrong when we wake up and decide to prevent it from next time on. Does it solve the problem? Yes for the remainders but never for the people who struggled first. But that alas is the rule of Nature. However advanced human brains get, how much ever evolved and philosophical we become, one thing we will never realize is that experiences have bigger influence than all the wise sayings or philosophies.

Similar is the case of diseases too. When man lived in ancient times when there was no marriages or no socialized life, they have done multiple sex, have eaten so much uncooked food, lived in desolate and unhygenic conditions, yet they did not have diseases of this nature which ails modern man. Just like it seems processed food becomes carcinogenic, a socialized human being becomes vulnerable to such unheard diseases. Or was it there then and no one cared...

Prevention is better than cure if you want to be inside systems if you want to become a part of the woodwork or want to live in ignominy. But if you want to be visible, you want to be a hero, wait for the problem to arise and act on it like furious and then like Dilbert says you become the noted personality!