Men don’t like to be lectured on how they live their lives. Maybe they’re happier with a shorter life expectancy:
In response to your story about risk-taking behaviors affecting male life expectancy: Has it ever occurred to you or those doctors that it does not matter how long you live but how fully? A full life, for many men, includes risky activities, sometimes a lot of risky activities. Stop trying to make men into whiny wimps!
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That’s kind of snarky, but it’s spot on. More and more those in government and law refuse to accept the notion that people can rationally choose things that are less healthy but more enjoybale. The obvious assumptions behind this are a) the only valid set of values one can hold sets length of life above all else and b) that it’s OK in some way for government to force that on those who aren’t “enlightened” enough to agree.
Wrong on both counts.
It seems that their is no loss of personal liberty that is not properly justified better health is the argument. Doctors and our professional associations sometimes are the worse enemies of freedom. The entire insistence on universal health insurance is part of this–completely ingonoring the fact that some people freely chose a sports car or a simple low paying job over a stressful one.
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