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George M. Middius[_2_]

wrote:

> > > > Crisco-type shortenings have killed more people than any other thing
> > > > people deliberately consume other than tobacco, or possibly alcohol.
> >
> > > That claim sounds outlandish. Do you believe Crisco gets caught in
> > > people's windpipes, causing them to suffocate?
> >
> > No, it gets caught in people's arteries, causing them to die from
> > coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and stroke. *Tobacco
> > doesn't kill in the short term either.

> You're gonna die of something so you may as well stop worrying about
> whether something is bad for you. Whether you live to be 58 or 98, in
> the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter.

Fatalism is incompatible with Type A micromanagement.