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Women Live Longer Because Men Are Dumb
stevesliva writes "CNEWS Canada reported on Sept. 30th that, 'If men dropped their risky ways and bad habits they would live just as long as women.' The story was an interesting spin on a study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which spun the study very differently. (Thanks to ThisIsTrue for bringing the respun spin to my attention.)"
I'd rather our resources be spent on people who actually LIVE for 70 years, like me and my filthy hedonistic brethren, than to support your clinical ass for 106.
Go have some fucking fun. Christ.
By dying off early, they'll consume less of the limited resources of planet Earth. So go on ... Because when you die, the planet can stop wasting its finite resources on you. ;)
Woaah.. this sounds along the lines of:
* "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem." - Lamont Cole
* "This is as good a way to get rid of them as any." - Charles Wursta, Environtmental Defense Fund in response to the implications of millions dying of malaria from a global ban on DDT.
* "I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." - Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace
* "While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind." - David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth
* "Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet." - David M. Graber, research biologist with the National Park Service
* "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." - John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal
* "I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." - John Davis
It sounds like these people all have one thing in common: complete disregard and lack of care for human life. I'm not sure about you, but I'm completely against the environmental movement. I'm all for saving the environment, but not at the cost of someone's life. When resources get running too low, I believe our increase in technology will make up for it.
On a side note, does taking rides improve your chances of not getting killed in a car wreck? I agree that taking less rides improves your chances, or riding a bus, but I trust my own defensive driving skills over my neighbor's any day.
I don't understand the stats in the article. Admittedly I'm probably just being dumb.
How does excluding deaths from preventable causes result in a lower life expectancy?
My (presumably incorrect?) interpretation of this is that people who die of "preventable" diseases do so on average later in life than those who die of "unpreventable" causes.
If it is right, surely we don't have mcuh to worry about - why worry that we are going to die of something preventable if we're likely to die earlier of something unpreventable?
According to statistics from 1997 to 1999, Canadian women have a life expectancy of 81.4 years compared with 75.9 years for men.
But when deaths from preventable causes are excluded, life expectancy for women is 73.5 years, slightly less than the average of 73.9 for men.
As the title says... I guess old age is a preventable cause of death. Why else would the average life expectency go down when preventable causes are excluded from the calc?
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