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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 12/10/06, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> After all this, what role does genetics play?  Not much room left to cause
> much mayhem.
Thus speaks an individual who has not felt the hand of God, in a
manner of speaking, on his neck, so to speak. With any luck at all,
God wiil pass you by. I've found that most of my friends improve after
a certain amount of affliction. We humans really, really don't believe
in stuff until it slaps us in the face.

> But more to the point, as someone pointed out earlier, our choice (generally,
> overall) in transportation has its consequences.  As a whole we think it is
> so neat to zip around in ton and a half vehicles at fatal speeds that some of
> us ARE going to be killed.

Huh! You don't drive around?

> ....  A family that chooses to shuffle
> it's children ot school, to scocer, scouts, ballet, tiddly wink lessons,
> church six times a week, and then go out to eat every other meal is greatly
> increasing their odds of a fatal auto wreck.  Someone who is content to stay at 
> home > (or homestead) and go into town once or twice a month greatly reduces 
> their odds of a fatal wreck.  Ya pays your money, ya takes your chances.

You can still get run down on that weekly run. This argument is....
just.....silly.

> My take is this:  If you spent your life's energy providing yourself a
> physically vigorous lifestyle, good diet, peaceable envirnonment, and avoided
> bitheringly stupid life choices like smoking .... you would have better odds 
> of
> avoiding disease than having access to modern medicine has odds of curing 
> those
> diseases.  If anyone has evidence to dispute that, I'd be interested.

My mother has her blown knee and autoimmune disease. Don't tell me she
should have lived a better life. She did that  -- good diet, plenty of
exercise, no vices.

Let me know what she should have done.

Marie