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> Risks are about trade-offs. If the American Cancer Society wants to be helpful and actually listened to they need to provide practical actionable advice, not
by anal_reactor 2y ago
> Risks are about trade-offs. If the American Cancer Society wants to be helpful and actually listened to they need to provide practical actionable advice, not this cop-out.
I feel like the medical community is slowly starting to finally realize that they can't force patients to minmax their lives. Why would I live a long life that isn't enjoyable?
- pfdietz 2y agoI'm sorry if you feel the ACS is trying to force you to do something just by making a recommendation. Feeling a bit fragile, are you?
- anal_reactor 2y agoOf course I am fragile, I'm just a single individual thrown into the society of 8 billion people, what are you expecting
- pfdietz 2y agoI'm expecting you to not confuse someone informing you with someone forcing you. I mean, they are very different, unless you have the will of a wet noodle.
- anal_reactor 2y agoWet noodle slides effortlessly into you. What do you do?
- ryandrake 2y agoI think we learned in 2020-2021 that if the medical community doesn't put out an extremely strong statement about something, the general public won't take it seriously at all. When the ACS recommends avoiding alcohol consumption at any level, they don't think people are actually going to suddenly quit drinking. They're just trying to convince that guy who drinks two six-packs a night to cut down to one six-pack a night.
- pfdietz 2y agoOr, they've run the numbers, looked at the biology, and concluded the cost/benefit of drinking at any level doesn't favor drinking.