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Quite an interesting paper you linked:
Conventional wisdom during World War II among German soldiers,
members of the SS and SD as well as police personnel, held that any order given
by a superior officer must be obeyed under any circumstances. Failure to carry
out such an order would result in a threat to life and limb or possibly serious
danger to loved ones. Many students of Nazi history have this same view, even
to this day.
Could a German refuse to participate in the round up and murder of
Jews, gypsies, suspected partisans,"commissars"and Soviet POWs - unarmed
groups of men, women, and children - and survive without getting himself shot
or put into a concentration camp or placing his loved ones in jeopardy?
We may never learn the full answer to this, the ultimate question for
all those placed in such a quandry, because we lack adequate documentation
in many cases to determine the full circumstances and consequences of such a
hazardous risk. There are, however, over 100 cases of individuals whose moral
scruples were weighed in the balance and not found wanting. These individuals
made the choice to refuse participation in the shooting of unarmed civilians or
POWs and none of them paid the ultimate penalty, death! Furthermore,very few
suffered any other serious consequence!
Table of the consequences they faced:
- For sure, but that leads to much more individualised advice of the form "If you're fine to be exposed to sun for up to 2h with SPF 50, you should not expose yourself for much more than 1h with SPF 30". The quoted section makes it seem like "You're fine as long as you wear SPF 50+ sunscreen, but SPF 45 just won't cut it.", which doesn't generalise for most individuals and their level of sunlight exposure.
The linked sunscreen is SPF 45, which is not suitable if you’re using tretinoin.
Unlikely to be advice that can be generalised.
- SPF is a measure of the reduction of UVB reaching your skin
- SPF 30 means 96.7% protection
- SPF 45 means 97.8% protection
- SPF 50 means 98% protection
- SPF 80 means 98.75% protection
- There isn't much difference between SPF 45 and SPF 50+.
- Tretinoin increases sensitivity to UV light, but the biggest factor is still the underlying sensitivity of individual skin. For some people SPF 30 may be more than enough, for others, SPF 50+ may not be enough for prolonged sun exposure.
Still important to make sure that you're using broad-spectrum (UVA + UVB) sunscreen, and that you apply it correctly.
I think the overall point you're making is intriguing, and I could see how it might alter my home behaviour if I considered it more deeply. But I also strongly disagree with the following:
Just about every work behavior is an example of bad home behavior
There is a bunch of "work behavior" that has been very useful – in the right measure – for my personal life:
- Task Management – This cut down on the time I spend on "life admin".
- Scheduling – Reaching out with "let's find an evening to play tennis" helps me increase the number of fulfilling activities I do with friends.
- Prioritization – Day-to-day life can obscure what's really important. Thinking about what I really value and want to achieve can make my life more meaningful.
- Creating Spreadsheets & Documents – Apart from the obvious use case in personal finance, Spreadsheets are also very valuable to me for evaluating crucial life decisions ("Where should we move?"). I use documents for private events I'm organising (e.g. a weekend trip to the mountains with friends).
Maybe some of them are too obvious and common. But they are things that my grandmother wouldn't have done – and I suspect that they are mostly derived from work culture.
I assumed that there were a large number of unknown cases and that the unknown cases, on average, had less severe consequences. But I haven't read the paper deeply enough to really know this.