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Our culture is saturated with this trope. Compare: 1. Health nut who lives on salad, low-fat yogurt/everything, jogs endlessly, frets about his body being a te
by keybored 3y ago
Our culture is saturated with this trope. Compare:
1. Health nut who lives on salad, low-fat yogurt/everything, jogs endlessly, frets about his body being a temple[1]
2. Sex, drugs, good food, rock & roll
Miserly wholesomeness vs. exciting, short-lived unwholesomeness.
[1] The point here is the self-denial. Some people intrinsically likes these things; however, they would then not fit the trope
- quesera 3y agoAnd confounding things further, there's little evidence that group one lives a longer -- much less happier -- life, than group two.
- generic92034 3y agoI had the impression over-eating and drug abuse was shortening one's life, on average. Is that wrong?
- quesera 3y agoBoth of the examples are archetypical extremes. But FWIW the character created for example #2 is not mainlining mountain dew and fentanyl.
- midnight2 3y agoCould you expand on why you think living healthily doesn't increase your lifespan? Untreated STDs can cause infertility, sexual dysfunction, cancer, brain damage, and death. No method of preventing them is 100% effective besides abstinence or having sex with a small amount of partners that you trust not to lie about being clean. Drugs carry the risk of overdosing, and for those that even just use semi regularly they still reduce lifespan. Eating excess calories makes you fat which hugely increases your risk of having a heart attack among other health issues. Even if you control your calories, eating processed food makes you more likely to die early or develop a debilitating disease. This is all very common sense about how to live longer, if you think you've cracked the code and any of the above is wrong please explain.
- quesera 3y agoYou left out the moral turpitude of rock and roll, which could cause you to be not right with the divine and forfeit your soul.