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12 Post author: yttrium 30 May 2012 08:59PM

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Comment author: MartinB 31 May 2012 08:14:17AM 1 point [-]

Oh, also usually ignored are things that happen to almost everyone. EY's weekly baseballbat bashing. Lifestyle interventions do reduce health risks to some degree but are commonly ignored.

Comment author: CronoDAS 01 June 2012 07:59:54AM 0 points [-]

Changing lifestyle is hard.

Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 01 June 2012 07:03:45AM 0 points [-]

EY's weekly baseballbat bashing

explain?

Comment author: CronoDAS 01 June 2012 07:59:30AM 1 point [-]

How To Seem (And Be) Deep

At another point in the discussion, a man spoke of some benefit X of death, I don't recall exactly what. And I said: "You know, given human nature, if people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing. But if you took someone who wasn't being hit on the head with a baseball bat, and you asked them if they wanted it, they would say no. I think that if you took someone who was immortal, and asked them if they wanted to die for benefit X, they would say no."

Comment author: MartinB 01 June 2012 08:09:13AM 0 points [-]

As written by CronoDAS. If most people get a debilitating disease by age X it would be widely accepted as unavoidable. Used to be the case with losing teeth in old age, still is with dementia and aging. Basically a comparison of the own experience to the common experience of your peers.

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