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0 pointsits_ethan1y ago0 comments

Don't try to pre-dodge by accusing anyone who replies and disagrees with you of overintellectualizing lol

As a proxy for "safety", look at average life expectancy. Even excluding infant mortality, life expectancy has increased by like 20-25% since the year 1900 (for people who reached age 20). We're doing something right in the modern age, and suggesting that we revert to how things were in the 1800s is not common sense, it's being a luddite (imo).

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/qtYQp1x-ZF9iXc-zVh7Kg2xJBX...

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cynicalpeace1y ago

Something made in a factory is less likely to be good for you than something made by a tree and stone tools.

The industrial age has brought many good things and many bad things. To acknowledge the bad things is not to discredit the good things. It's quite simple.

Higher life expectancy is a good thing. Infertility, cancer, and obesity are bad things.

More of each was brought by the industrial age. I'm not saying the industrial age as a whole was bad.

Again, all of this is just overintellecualizing it.

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