Anonymous ID: b6c02f Nov. 30, 2018, 8:12 a.m. No.4085643   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5728 >>5732

You hear a lot about White Privilege and White Flight, but when you look at the mortality figures lately, it looks more like White Plight. From AFP:

 

US life expectancy drops again as overdoses climb

AFP, Kerry SHERIDAN, November 28, 2018

 

Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb — taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017 — and suicides rose, a US government report said Thursday.

 

The drug overdose rate rose 9.6 percent compared to 2016, while suicides climbed 3.7 percent, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.

 

As a result, the average life span in America dropped to “78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2016,” said the report.

Anonymous ID: b6c02f Nov. 30, 2018, 8:34 a.m. No.4085828   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5849 >>5856 >>5944

>>4085781

I stopped drinking a few years back and now vape a bit of THC a few days a week, it’s much healthier in general than alcohol, at least for a heavy drinker like myself, but I have noticed that weed saps initiative. You get comfy and achieving goals seems kind of peripheral to the more important task of enjoying life. That is the downside from an objectivist point of view, but is clearly not terrible from the point of view of the comfy individual.