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> The continued life expectancy of humans seems to show that any harm is very small. This is terrible logic. If something causes deafness, blindness, or missin
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> The continued life expectancy of humans seems to show that any harm is very small.
This is terrible logic. If something causes deafness, blindness, or missing toes it will not affect life expectancy.
Additionally, suppose in same year a drug against cancer i.proves life expectancy by 5 years and plastic pollution causes it to go down by 5 years - so you will never find out.
- sacrosancty 4y agoThat's what I mean by very small harm - hard to isolate from other factors, so no really relevant to individuals' lives. Disabilities can obviously be treated the same way - we don't have an epidemic of blindness. Maybe it's coming when all those plastic-bottle-using-mothers'-babies reach 80 years old, but the chance of anything dramatic happening is shrinking as time goes by.