On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So in terms of deaths, fixing (or even denting) ageing,
malnutrition, infectious diseases and lifestyle causes is a far more
important activity than winning wars or stopping terrorists.</blockquote></div><br><div>Except that if you applied the war budget to anti-aging, nutrition, fighting disease through medication and vaccination, and lifestyle improvement, you'd save far more lives than just the war casualties averted. Assuming, of course, that the nutrition and lifestyle "improvements" promoted by the government were actually improvements...</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div>