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I advise people to at least consider the “years of life lost” approach to thinking about this [0] Prostate cancer and breast cancer suck. All cancer sucks, it’

by zxexz 1y ago

I advise people to at least consider the “years of life lost” approach to thinking about this [0] Prostate cancer and breast cancer suck. All cancer sucks, it’s a blight on civilization. Don’t pit diseases against each other like that. They’re not sports teams. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10279998/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10279998/

radu_floricica 1y ago
And yet you chose to reply to this comment instead of the parent :) CW is a thing, cant's wish it away. Best to work on rules of engagement and being at least slightly productive about it. Small steps like https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/but-vs-yes-but https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/but-vs-yes-but. Seems trivial, but I'd love to see more informal rules like this enforced in practice.
- zxexz 1y ago
  I’m sure I don’t understand what you’re saying! Could you explain? I’m not being facetious, either. I’m not sure how posting this to the parent would have made any sense.
mattigames 1y ago
The money is not infinite in any sense so it is for many pragmatic purposes a competition, the diseases with more attention get more research, so it's in the reasonable interests of the people to advocate for the diseases that are most likely to affect them personally.
- zxexz 1y ago
  For sure. I would like to point out for readers to think about the fact that if you are, say, a guy in your 30s, the women close to you getting breast cancer will also have a profound impact on your life. Likely a greater one than dying of prostate cancer in your 80s. Maybe (hopefully) neither of those happen! Maybe you get prostate cancer in your 30s! I just hope one can realize that getting the disease oneself is not the only way the disease can affect them, far from it.

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I advise people to at least consider the “years of life lost” approach to thinking about this [0] Prostate cancer and breast cancer suck. All cancer sucks, it’

by zxexz 1y ago

radu_floricica 1y ago
And yet you chose to reply to this comment instead of the parent :) CW is a thing, cant's wish it away. Best to work on rules of engagement and being at least slightly productive about it. Small steps like https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/but-vs-yes-but https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/but-vs-yes-but. Seems trivial, but I'd love to see more informal rules like this enforced in practice.
- zxexz 1y ago
  I’m sure I don’t understand what you’re saying! Could you explain? I’m not being facetious, either. I’m not sure how posting this to the parent would have made any sense.
mattigames 1y ago
The money is not infinite in any sense so it is for many pragmatic purposes a competition, the diseases with more attention get more research, so it's in the reasonable interests of the people to advocate for the diseases that are most likely to affect them personally.
- zxexz 1y ago
  For sure. I would like to point out for readers to think about the fact that if you are, say, a guy in your 30s, the women close to you getting breast cancer will also have a profound impact on your life. Likely a greater one than dying of prostate cancer in your 80s. Maybe (hopefully) neither of those happen! Maybe you get prostate cancer in your 30s! I just hope one can realize that getting the disease oneself is not the only way the disease can affect them, far from it.