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Don't genes exist for a reason?
Wouldn't every gene have passed its own Darwin Award and justify its existance by promoting survival, at least in a situation common enough to have allowed its bearer to breed?
What problems would we face if we never had to deal with depression?
Would chronically happy people fail to be successful and breed as well as periodically depressed people, um... I mean mice...