Jewish Economics Professor: "We should celebrate declining US life expectancy"
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Date: December 7th, 2019 10:54 AM Author: ivory contagious menage trust fund
"The thing to celebrate, of course, is not the deaths themselves, but the fact that people have found something worth dying for"
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2019/12/01/life-lessons/
The Washington Post and others of that ilk have been sounding the alarm about declining life expectancy in the U.S., driven mostly by rising death rates due to opioid use and obesity among the young and middle-aged.
There’s something terribly wrong says the Post headline. Maybe. But the content of the article suggests that a better headline might have been There’s something to celebrate. Certainly the article offers no argument or evidence for the former interpretation.
There is something to celebrate if rising death rates result from voluntary, informed choices. The thing to celebrate, of course, is not the deaths themselves, but the fact that people have found something worth dying for — just as, when you buy a house, I’ll congratulate not for the expense, but for finding something that made the expense worthwhile.
You’d think (or at least I‘d think) this was entirely obvious, but apparently it’s not obvious to everyone, so maybe it’s worth offering an extreme example. Suppose we’re all tied to beds in hospital rooms, with doctors monitoring every blip in our health and attending to it immediately. As a result, we mostly live long and miserable lives. Now one day, we engineer a mass escape. Life expectancy goes down for reasons that call for a celebration.
Opioids offer escape from miserable lives. They also offer enhancement of non-miserable lives. The decision to be obese comes with a great many perks — you can spend a lot more time eating M&M’s and a lot less on the treadmill. (I myself spend much of my treadmill time wondering whether I’ve made the wrong choice.) Like all good things, these come with costs. In this case, the cost is in the form of increased mortality. Apparently, people think that’s a cost worth paying. We should be glad for them.
Now you can certainly tell a story in which mortality due to opioid use is up because the world has gotten so much worse that there’s more demand for escape. That would be a bad trend (though even then, we’d want to celebrate the ability of opioids to mitigate some of that misery). Or you can tell a story in which mortality due to opioid use is up because people have gotten so much richer they can afford to be opioid addicts, or because opioids have gotten better, or because they’ve become more readily available. That would be a good trend. The Washington Post article alludes to the former possibility, without a shred of a good reason to think it’s the right story, as opposed to one of many possible stories.
You know what else is way up over the past couple of decades? Expenditures on smartphones. That sounds really really bad if you choose to ignore the fact that the people who are spending all that money get to have smarthpones. Likewise, an upward trend in mortality from M&M consumption sounds really really bad if you choose to ignore the fact that the people who are shortening their life expectancies also get to eat a lot of M&Ms. There is more to life than life expectancy.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4396655&forum_id=2#39228395) |
Date: December 7th, 2019 10:55 AM Author: ivory contagious menage trust fund
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Landsburg
He has eastern European Jewish heritage.[23] Landsburg is an atheist.[24]
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4396655&forum_id=2#39228401)
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Date: December 8th, 2019 2:34 AM Author: Pearl Dashing Locale
It should be obvious to anyone reasonable, and I think it is to the professor but he is choosing to be silly here, that freedom of choice isn't some unfettered good. There are people who fight their compulsions desperately. People who beg the casino to exclude them so they can't return. People who check into rehab hoping that this will be the time they finally stop relapsing their drug or alcohol addiction. Overweight people going on one more diet, one more workout program, going to therapy, hypnotism, whatever, hoping this will be the one thing to finally cure their food addiction. And these people all fail.
If anything a powerful addiction is the antithesis of freedom of choice. You are no longer able to choose not to use, or put another way, even when you do deliberately choose not to use your addiction reverses your choice for you over and over.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4396655&forum_id=2#39231913) |
Date: December 7th, 2019 11:03 AM Author: ivory contagious menage trust fund
Steve Landsburg
December 2, 2019 at 11:56 pm
Be careful about shades of meaning here — increased voluntary and informed opioid use (packaged with the concomitant deaths) is unambiguously a good thing. It can be caused by either a good thing (increased wealth, increased leisure time, better opiates, etc) or by a bad thing (feelings of despair, etc). But taking the ambient conditions as given, the fall in life expectancy is a symptom of an unambiguously good thing.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4396655&forum_id=2#39228439) |
Date: December 7th, 2019 12:36 PM Author: garnet infuriating garrison
In a blog post from March 20, 2013 titled "Censorship, Environmentalism and Steubenville," Landsburg spawned controversy when discussing principles on which to justify what is legal. He proposed as a second attempt that "You can do anything you want as long as you're not causing anybody direct physical harm"; he proceeds to conduct an argument by demonstrating that "it would also allow you to rape an unconscious victim if there were no physical consequences". This outcome, in obvious violation of common sense, is then evidence against the second principle. Critics claim this is an attempt to justify rape on an economic basis.[16]
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4396655&forum_id=2#39228813)
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Date: December 7th, 2019 6:44 PM Author: beady-eyed wine site
he assumes people are rational and not impulsive
Date: December 7th, 2019 6:39 PM
Author: ESL TM..,..;;.(🦈)
His argument isn't that terrible, actually.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=#)
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Date: December 8th, 2019 2:39 AM Author: Orange university fat ankles
the economics profession should be abolished and all working economists should be put to death.
ive said that years ago and people laughed me off.
keep laughing, you fucking morons. ppl like julia for example. dumb fucking spic. im a free thinker bitch, and im right. ur the wrong one, you fucking spic.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4396655&forum_id=2#39231921) |
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