This paper looks like something put out by the No Fun Allowed Brigade; it’s labelling things as ‘choices’ when it would be more appropriate to label them as ‘lifestyles’. The factors of drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and not excercise are going to be more or less dangerous depending on your environment—living in the slums is going to make these behaviorus inherently more risky than they are in suburbia.
I suspect the real purpose of the paper is to say “Look at these dumb lower classes—they keep making the WRONG decisions for themselves. Time for us to step in, and do their thinking for them!”
‘Decisions’, in my mind, ought refer to the specific events leading up to the situation—not broad categories of decisions.
That’s a pretty negative assessment. I see it more good news and useful information: “Pay attention to these things and you (probably) get to live longer.”
This paper looks like something put out by the No Fun Allowed Brigade; it’s labelling things as ‘choices’ when it would be more appropriate to label them as ‘lifestyles’. The factors of drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and not excercise are going to be more or less dangerous depending on your environment—living in the slums is going to make these behaviorus inherently more risky than they are in suburbia.
I suspect the real purpose of the paper is to say “Look at these dumb lower classes—they keep making the WRONG decisions for themselves. Time for us to step in, and do their thinking for them!”
‘Decisions’, in my mind, ought refer to the specific events leading up to the situation—not broad categories of decisions.
That’s a pretty negative assessment. I see it more good news and useful information: “Pay attention to these things and you (probably) get to live longer.”