<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:40 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I do grow a lot of my food and realize that most of you can't. Many people can't cook or won't learn how, or don't have time, or go contrary "Well, everything is bad for you and you have to die of something.........." and thus just buy or eat anything they like.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Basic problem: all of this is just way too big for a person to handle, to make some kind of influence on, and so we just read the paper and wag our heads and thrust them into the sand.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Sure, but there's a huge spectrum of behaviors between "anything goes" and "nothing is safe". Avoiding all risk is obviously impossible but some simple rules could go a long way for just about everyone. If you can't grow your own food you can probably still buy locally-grown food from a farmer's market, farmer, neighbor, etc. If you don't cook you can learn. If you don't have time you can learn to prioritize and manage your time. But if "I don't have time" is really "eh, I don't really care, I'd rather watch more cat videos/Kardashian shows/whatever than learn about ways to be healthy and live longer", then I have no sympathy.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-Dave<br></div></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">DNA and evolution and whoever and whatever got us here did a fantastic job, but look at how flawed we are. Selfish, narrow-minded, short-sighted, all sorts of cognitive errors practically built in, ability to think in abstractions limited to less than half the population. How lazy we are is a matter of debate</div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A great many famous men and women have regarded most of humanity as little more than cannon fodder. Nice people, most of them, but if they were all we had, we'd never have had any science at all. Most of them still regard science as highly suspicious and would rather believe religious figures, magic, common sense, superstitions et al.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So, I might add, it is so nice to be among you all, the top percentiles of the population. Many days this chat group provides me with the only intelligent conversations I get. Thanks!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bill W</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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