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		alan-crowe on Oct 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't ... People grow old and die. It takes about seventy years. Thoroughly wasting a year of everybody's lives is equivalent to 1.4% mortality.

tempestn on Oct 2, 2023 [–]

Living under some restrictions for a year is not equivalent to having a year deleted from your life.

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