Tuesday, April 26, 2005
The risk of living forever is 0%.
--Deb at 01:50 PM--
Zombyboy has a link to a column by Paul Campos that’s worth a read. I know a lot of folks don’t find him terribly credible, but he’s definitely got a point about the curious redefinition of risk factors as diseases. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m going to throw away my blood pressure pills, but it does mean that pretty much everyone over the age of thirty is now defined in some fashion or another as sick. This is, as Campos suggests, definitely making things a bit weird, culturally speaking.
ZB also asks an interesting question. I think it’s likely, myself, but you might want to go have a look and offer an opinion.
