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Originally Posted by Juniper
Shit like this makes you wonder why bother quitting smoking.
(Except that it smells awful and is expensive.)
Or quit doing any other thing you enjoy because someday you might suffer ill health from it. Because you might ANYWAY.
Damn depressing.
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Kinda get what you mean, Juni, but to me it's like saying, "Makes you wonder why you look both ways crossing the road?"
I mean I'm a horrible poster child for the attitude that you should look after yourself, but I'm not auditioning as one. It's horrible, horrible when people who should have "deserved" better suffer. But that's nature. There is no rhyme and reason. We're sentient. We can make choices. And the majority of people will live or die by the choices they make. Some are a case of statistics (cancer more likely if you make certain choices) some are random (you walked into the McDonalds which the gunman had an issue with).
I had three grandparents who died young because they chose to live as they wanted. In an unhealthy way. Two from ignorance, one by choice. Separately, my Great Aunt followed the same lifestyle and lived to a reasonable age. Maybe self-denial would have made all of them miserable, but I don't know the absence of it made Alice any happier.