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0 pointsReptileMan4y ago0 comments

You have to die of something eventually. We are not immortal.

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I think many people would like to see their loved ones live longer, healthier lives and die with relative comfort. That doesn't require being denial about their mortality.

ReptileManOP4y ago

And yet the loved ones decision how to live their lives greatly outweigh what many people would like to see.

Having more pleasurable life when young while trading for a more gruesome death after 80 is not that bad of trade off.

There was a joke:

- Drinking, smoking and whoring shorten your life with 6 years. - Which six? Between 92 and 98 - take it.

woodruffw4y ago

I don't disagree. But it's also not clear why the government should incentivize individually cheap, collectively expensive personal decisions like current smoking patterns.

febeling4y ago

Many people would like to see their loved ones live in freedom, too. That means in probably almost 100% of the cases making sub-optimal decisions.

twofornone4y ago

Most people do not get the fortune of dying peacefully in their sleep, regardless of their health habits.

woodruffw4y ago

Which doesn't, in itself, justify a particularly nasty form of death for hundreds of thousands of people. Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

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woodruffw4y ago

I think many people would like to see their loved ones live longer, healthier lives and die with relative comfort. That doesn't require being denial about their mortality.

ReptileManOP4y ago

And yet the loved ones decision how to live their lives greatly outweigh what many people would like to see.

Having more pleasurable life when young while trading for a more gruesome death after 80 is not that bad of trade off.

There was a joke:

- Drinking, smoking and whoring shorten your life with 6 years. - Which six? Between 92 and 98 - take it.

woodruffw4y ago

I don't disagree. But it's also not clear why the government should incentivize individually cheap, collectively expensive personal decisions like current smoking patterns.

febeling4y ago

Many people would like to see their loved ones live in freedom, too. That means in probably almost 100% of the cases making sub-optimal decisions.

twofornone4y ago

Most people do not get the fortune of dying peacefully in their sleep, regardless of their health habits.

woodruffw4y ago

Which doesn't, in itself, justify a particularly nasty form of death for hundreds of thousands of people. Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

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