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Look At Sick People To Give Your Immune System a Boost
Scientists at the University of British Columbia have found that looking at someone who appears sick boosts your immune system. Subjects had blood taken before and after watching a 10-minute slide show that contained disturbing images including people who appeared sick. Results of the blood tests showed people who had seen the sick people had a stronger immune system. From the article: "In the study, young adults were asked to watch a 10-minute slide show containing a series of unpleasant photographs. Some pictures included people who looked obviously ill in some way. The subjects' blood samples were then tested for levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a substance produced by the immune system that indicates your immune system is ramping up to more aggressively fight infection. As a control, pictures of people brandishing guns were also used on some participants—and they barely resulted in a significant increase in IL-6 production, signifying that IL-6 production is not simply a reaction to stress."
Oh, and guns DO NOT kill people.... it's the person holding the gun that kills people.
Which is nothing more than a cute attempt at trying to deflect the fact that the sole purpose of a gun is to maim and or kill people.
Really?
Are you really asking this? Yes, guns are for maiming and killing people. This is the whole point of how they are a deterrent to people who would want to harm you. If they weren't for such a purpose exactly what is the point of carrying one around?
So take your self-righteous attitude that anyone who buys a gun wants to kill someone, and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
I never said that anyone who buys a gun wants to kill someone so your claims of some supposed self-righteous attitude has no basis. I said that the point of a gun is to kill or maim someone. That you use it for a different purpose than it's intended use doesn't change that. I can use a hammer to go around breaking car windows. Does that change the fact that the intent of a hammer is to do things like drive in nails, etc?
Your supposed "logic" is nothing but an attempt to deny the reality of what guns are for. It would be like arguing that a hammer isn't really for driving in nails because you can also use it to break windows.
Erm... there's a significant increase. Only barely, but still significant.
Was that so hard? You read the words, and you understand what they mean.
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