Jane Galt says they bear some responsibility as well:
Moreover, as a class, the old and sick have some culpability in their ill health. They didn’t eat right or exercise; they smoked; they didn’t go to the doctor as often as they ought; they drank to much, or took drugs, or sped, or engaged in dangerous sports. Again, in individual cases this will not be true; but as a class, the old and sick bear some of the responsibility for their own ill health, while younger, healthier people have almost no causal role in the ill-health of others.
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Another great attempt to rationalize not having to care about others. “See! its their own fault”
Maybe they were busy working to pay for the next generations education and health care,fighting for civil rights and in korea,Vietnam ,etc. But since they didn’t follow health quidelines that wern’t even developed then,its their fault,and the present generation can just ignore them.
Isn’t rationalization a great tool,it saves all that need to worry about others
Vt MD
I find that we tend to vastly overestimate our ability to control events in general and health in particular.
It enables us to blame others for their misfortunes more than is warranted which serves the dual purpose of relieving us of guilt for not helping and gives us false reassurances regarding our own fate.
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