Quote (Melatonina @ 9 Jan 2022 21:04)
6 millions deaths each year due to tobacco, but nothing is done to reduce that number
3 millions deaths each year due to alcohol, but nothing is done to reduce that number
7 millions deaths each year due to cancer, but nothing is done to reduce that number
3,4 millions deaths due to starving, ....
Neither smoking nor alcohol nor cancer are contagious diseases.
Also, smoking and alcohol are beneficial or at least cost-neutral for society. Someone dying from lung cancer or liver cirrhosis at age 55 or 65 or so spares the welfare state some 15 to 25 years of social security payments, healthcare costs, nursing home costs and so on.
From a purely financial perspective, the rest of society is better off if the plebs toil until they die an early death than if they got to enjoy decades of retirement.
This might be the most cynical and disgusting thing I've ever written on PaRD, but it's the cold hard truth.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 9 2022 02:18pm