Frankly, it's quite a shame to say that. Cancer (life?) Is partly a lottery.
I quote from wiki: Scientific studies conclude that only 5 to 10% of cancer cases are attributed solely to genetic factors against 25 to 30% to smoking, 30 to 35% to diets (eg alcoholism, overcooked meats), 15 to 20% to infections, and 10 to 25% to other environmental factors (ionizing radiation, stress, insufficient physical activity, environmental pollution) 4. Current research is struggling to identify risk factors uniquely related to un environmental or behavioral factor 5. Some studies, for example, highlight certain genetic predispositions of cancer which would only favor the onset of the disease in the event of an external factor: obese diabetics are not all equal in terms of the risk of cancer according to their genes6. Future studies will undoubtedly provide a better understanding of the interaction between the environment and genetics7.What contempt for these people whose lives today, at least a large part of their life, are threatened by a crappy disease, even though their past choices were not "optimal" in relation to this disease. ... syears that we know, anyway, how much has played their way of life. In what context their choices were made.
Everything you indicate above is real and therefore relates in large part to individual behaviors that increase or reduce the chances of developing this condition.
An individual who will not smoke, neither alcohol, nor drugs, who does sufficient physical activity, who has a diet only vegetable, and organic, who lives in the countryside far from pollution, etc ... minimizes as much as possible his probabilities of 'to be the victim of unfavorable circumstances in life precisely like these cancers and other so-called diseases of civilizations and that is not a lottery.
I find it disgusting. Everyone deserves compassion. Even the 2-pack-a-day smoker for 20 years, when he discovered his lung cancer. Obviously he greatly increased his risk. So what ? Did he really understand the consequences at the time? The point is, now he and his family are in a mess.
Stop this usual tearful speech to serve as a pretext not to change any of our bad habits. All smokers have known for more than a century the effects induced by their consumption knowing that the probabilities of that happening are high, the smoker does not discover as if he were an innocent victim, as if smoking was not an act " responsible ”(and above all irresponsible) towards himself and his family, and yet he continued until the fateful moment when he was told that the inevitable had happened. And then indeed, he finds himself in a shitty situation!
Throwing in his face his supposed bad choices, is helping him? Is it helping those around you? It's enlightening people on this forum ? No. What is the point, if not to place you in a moralizing position, of givers of lessons who do better than others? To nothing. It doesn't help anyone.
Bad luck for your speech: I co-facilitated voluntary smoking detox sessions. And in 2 days maximum, their addiction ended without drugs, or patches, or other crap that keeps these people under addiction. Getting people out of the shit that they've got themselves into on purpose, do you call that a judgmental position?
What are you saying to the family of the young biker who was killed in a mountain bend? "Ah bah, on the other hand, the motorbike is dangerous eh!". My ass, in real life you offer your condolences and support.
I roll cushy at 80km / h (this is the speed currently imposed) and I see bikers overtaking me like rockets, especially in the bends as on TV. CURRENTLY, I haven't seen any of them cuddle up behind or even in front of me. Accidents can happen to anyone, without exception, but there is a difference between suffering and going out to meet it just for the sake of showing off, for the adrenaline rush. But a life is and remains a life, why waste it!
What are you saying to the farmer who for years spread very violent products for his cereal production who has permanent pneumonia? "Well my boy, you didn't have to poison the earth!"
I would say like the farmer who just won a victory over Monsanto; "
the bastards of manufacturers of these poisons, they had not indicated to me precautionary measures ", Like what is being done now"; "
Well then.
And the carpenter who is missing 3 fingers after a router accident, you tell him that he had only to follow the manufacturer's recommendations to the letter and that he is an asshole?
I have worked in industry creating or improving machines with many safety systems required by law, to avoid the multitude of previous accidents. And unfortunately workers manage to bypass or bypass them to save time or simply because it is too restrictive.
There too, even with all possible precautions (I am a very handyman) accidents still happen due to inattention or stupid behavior and it happened to me, because I had run a security system and it could have been worse.
Anyway, who wrote:
Personally, I really do two things shown in the video:
-I'm trying to understand the full reasoning, the position exposed, even if it is contrary to what I currently think. Often, we realize that there are few enlightened people, in reality, and rather a lot of people who have well-founded positions with arguments (....)Are you talking about compassion here? No ! You analyze the situation without involving contradictory feelings that distort reason, the subject of this video and of the book cited! Do the same here BEFORE you talk about compassion misused.
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré