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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.)"
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.
Isn't it interesting that when women die or have poor health it's viewed as a societal problem and when men die or have poor health it's viewed as our own damned fault?
Men die because our lives are less valued than women's, and we are brought up to value our lives less. We are surrounded by cultural propoganda dedicated to the proposition that the gruesome death of a young man is, literally, glorious.
Until we value the lives of men as highly as we value the lives of women, men's lives will continue to be shorter and poorer than women's.
The data reported in this study contain many subtle cues as to how men routinely mistreat themselves: for example, men take fewer disability days than women. This is not because men suffer from fewer hurts and harms, but because we are taught from birth that it's more important to sacrifice ourselves than take to care of ourselves. And sacrifice ourselves we do.
--Tom
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.