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Living Alone May Be Hazardous to Your Health
- ExpiredLink 14y agoCorrelation is not causation. Again.
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- coldtea 14y agoAnd wanting explanations (much less doubting them) for the obvious is neither science nor wisdom.
- Evbn 14y agoWhat is the value of sharing articles that repeat the obvious without explanation?
- gems 14y agoIt's obvious that things fall towards the center of the earth. Yet, you have hordes of physicists searching for a mathematical reason for why it happens. The point here is that nobody cares whether or not 'it is obvious' to you. Lots of things are obvious to lots of people and most of those things turn out to be false. Only rigorous justification advances our knowledge. You would know all of this if you weren't a complete ignoramus.
- coldtea 14y ago>Lots of things are obvious to lots of people and most of those things turn out to be false. Only rigorous justification advances our knowledge. In hard sciences it does. There, there's no problem with "rigorous justification". But overdoing "rigorous justification" can take our knowledge back instead of advancing it, in non hard science domains. What I argue for here is the so-called European way of thinking about humanities and soft sciences, as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon model of quantification, hard proofs, reductionism and such. Letting "rigorous justification" overtake humanities and soft sciences can be detrimental to society, thinking and freedom. Moreover, despite pretending to be "objective", the Anglo-Saxon way takes for granted a whole ideological apparatus of its own (only except of being self-reflective, like the European, it naively assumes it is inevitable and natural). >You would know all of this if you weren't a complete ignoramus. Thanks for the personal insult. Am I to presume it reflects your deep studies and personal cultivation?
- Swannie 14y agoI don't think they were implying any causation. They made some suggestions as to the causes, but were just pointing out the correlation.
- Evbn 14y agoThe headline explicitly states causation.
- themgt 14y agoIt's pretty obvious being isolated from real social and physical connection with other humans tends to have a severely negative impact on people's mental and physical health. It's really sad how America has built itself into a lonelier and lonelier society over the past decades.
- sultezdukes 14y agoIt's pretty obvious being isolated from real social and physical connection with other humans tends to have a severely negative impact on people's mental and physical health No, it's not obvious. It's really sad how America has built itself into a lonelier and lonelier society over the past decades. That's just your experience.
- jlgreco 14y ago> No, it's not obvious. Agreed. In fact, I would expect the opposite. Living by myself allows me to precisely meter how much time I spend with others and how much time I spend alone. If I want some human contact at the moment, then I go out and get some. If I don't, then I go home. The only way that this breaks down is if the amount of time I want to spend with other people is somehow detrimental to my health. Can I maintain this when all of my friends start getting married is another question...
- holri 14y agoThat is why todays homo egoisticus will die out in the end.
- 13b9f227ecf0 14y agoAll the major Asian and Western urban centers are huge population sinks with way below replacement TFR.
- pierdolony 14y ago>Living Alone May Be Hazardous to Your Health why? because I don't HAVE TO wash the dishes immediately after every f-ing meal? I'll accept the risks and danger of dying happy over living longer with someone else and being miserable. It's crap like this article, the propaganda of conformity, that aggrandizes stupidity and servitude over autonomy & freedom that makes me hate humanity. Suck teh dick of society, team up, so you don't have time to think and learn and realize how you're getting screwed by corporatism, government, religion, etc. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. [ Thoreau, "Walden" ] Here's the truth about living alone vs family... The family! Home of all social evils, a charitable institution for indolent women, a prison workshop for the slaving breadwinner, and a hell for children. [ August Strindberg ] SINGLE FOR LIFE CHILDLESS BY CHOICE BETTER THAN YOU and your slave mentality The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins. [ Henry Louis Mencken ]
- OGinparadise 14y agoDuh is my quick answer. We're social beings, well most of us. we're supposed to talk to each other, laugh, share joys, comfort each other, tease and brag to each other. IIRC, in prison leaving someone in solitary for an extended time qualifies as torture simply because we're not supposed to be alone. You go nuts