Agreed. Regardless of ethnicity or location there are always good and bad people. Generalizing/grouping people on one trait only is devolved thinking.

We won't know how "close" we are until an actual cure is discovered that can be safely used on a large population. Some of these technologies have been dead ends, for now. Like 4-5 people have been cured EVER but they were on their deathbeds and basically all their bone marrow was destroyed and replaced to cure a different disease and the chance of death from the procedure was very high. Curing HIV was just a happy accident in their cases.

Ya, you're right about surviving. This next part is my personal view of evolution. I have begun to think that biological evolution is only the first step of evolution. Social bonds is the 2nd step in that knowledge gained through lifetimes can be passed down through generations through culture rather than just hard-coding behaviors into our DNA. To get from step 1 to step 2 takes the longest but each step is exponentially faster to progress. Step 3 is technology that emerges as a natural consequence of culture and generational knowledge. Step 4??? Maybe it's AI? Step 5??? Maybe it's revisiting step 1 and editing our own genes. Like I said, I expect each step to be faster than the previous.

The only questions that matters is can I survive and can I reproduce? If both are yes, then the mutation is an evolutionary win.