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Old April 9th, 2008 #62
Sándor Petőfi
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Originally Posted by Itz_molecular View Post
uh, yeah.
Why don't you define what better means in this context. Better yet, why don't you actually give your position a leg to stand on by defining quality of life.

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Like it's better to live into your mid 70's than die in your late 20's.
That would depend upon the quality of life of those years, hence lifespan cannot be taken as the measure of quality of life.

Quality of life at best being a matter of taste.

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Activated charcoal is dirt cheap , you can drink purer water than your ancestors ever did . Buy a chemist's still , you can have lab grade purity .
My great uncle drank city water , Washington D.C. , he only lived to 105 .
So applied science can at best attempt to undo the problem it created.

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Wild hyperbole .
India Finds Mutated DNA Where Water Is Toxic

Air pollution induces heritable DNA mutations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)








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No , you would have just lived in a hut with smoke from a pit fire and had severe lung disease by your late teens .
From where you cough up this rubbish god only knows.

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I see the faintest parts of the Milky Way every night, every constellation and cluster .
You can't living in one of those wonders of applied science, the modern urban environment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution

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That's just the choice of lazy people . You can buy good grains, hand mill and sprout all the grains you want , cheaply .
Oh, so you admit that in this area we are better off doing things the old fashioned way?

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go insane and die ,in extreme agony, of ergotism


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While wondering if a neighboring tribe would hunt you and your family for sport , torturing all of you for grins and giggles .
Rubbish. Europeans never practised cannibalism.

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Because your grossly ignorant and live in a daydream .
You are completely ignorant and live in a daydream created for you by 19th century Anglo-American fools.What is their legacy again? Umm, political, social and ecological disasters?

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They'd kiss the devil's ass just to have what is in the average medicine cabinet .
What? Prozac and birth control? For you fourteen years old daughter who is being gang bagnged by niggers because she was told it was cool over the technological marvel of television?

A medical report in 1998 estimated that adverse reactions to prescription drugs are killing about 106,000 Americans each year -- roughly three times as many as are killed by automobiles.[1] This makes prescription drugs the fourth leading killer in the U.S., after heart disease, cancer, and stroke. (those other wonders of the diet and environment given us courtesy of applied science)

http://consumerlawpage.com/article/d...hat_kill.shtml


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You're FOS as a Christmas goose .
There is no such thing as human progress. It's a completely meaningless phrase. A load of twaddle. The improvement of man; what is that supposed to be?

Progress

1. Movement, as toward a goal; advance.