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0 pointscoldtea5y ago0 comments

Or think they enjoy it. People can fool themselves in many ways.

There are however negative health effects, and have been studied quite well.

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giantg25y ago· 1 in thread

Are there studies that actually show that? It seem to me that lower life expectancy might be true in some cases but not all. I think it's mostly tied to ones enjoyment of being alone (more relative than absolute). Sure some people would not fare well, bit I fo believe other can be truly happy and do fair well. I know a guy in his 70s that lives pretty remotely in Alaska (and have you ever read one man's wilderness). I'm not saying it's for everyone. I am saying that it's essentially stereotyping to say it not for anyone.

coldteaOP5y ago

>I'm not saying it's for everyone. I am saying that it's essentially stereotyping to say it not for anyone.

Well, someone can smoke for 60 years, from 20 year old onwards, and never get cancer either. Actually, tons do just that. But lung cancer from smoking is not "stereotyping", it's a causual mechanism and a statistical reality.

It's not like that you mechanically and deterministically die or your health becomes predictably worse at the individual level.

Not to mention there's also the psychological health and the developmental effect.

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