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TeMPOraLyesterday at 8:06 AM4 repliesview on HN

At some point you have to wonder about the costs. Denying yourself everything that's nice and pleasant, and exercising constant, total active control over yourself sure might prolong your life, but what's the point?


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bigfudgeyesterday at 8:29 AM

The thing is, drinking to excess, smoking, eating ‘badly’ just aren’t pleasures at all if you don’t do them all the time. It’s hard to take the perspective, but there is more to life!

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samusyesterday at 10:52 AM

I don't get the contradiction? A healthy body will make it possible to enjoy all these things in moderation, be the company of your loved ones, and generally enjoy life for far longer. Making life just about the things that damage the body the most will have quite predictable consequences, no surprise there.

bregmayesterday at 9:57 AM

If you want to live forever don't do any of the things that would make it worthwhile.

dzhiurgisyesterday at 11:15 AM

Amazing times we live in where addiction is woke and abstinence must be fascism?