Accidents & preventable deaths from bad health decisions would become more visible & proportionally more frequent causes of death.
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The actual risk of any one activity might not change, but our attitudes towards safety might.
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We might conceptualize of ourselves as children for longer periods of time, with all the baggage that comes with.
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This would also correspond with socioeconomic disparities having an even greater magnitude of influence on lifespan than they do now.
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(Which is ugly in itself.)
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In particular, this might change our society's attitudes towards some of most common causes of death we tolerate (to varying degrees) now.
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ex. cars, smoking, drugs, alcohol, obesity.
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This made me look up gun deaths since ofc. they've been in news. Perhaps separate category more directly connected to death w/o abstraction.
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Replying to @chenoehart
as death rates from other causes have dropped over the past century, suicides have remained constant
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I was just thinking about implications in that direction!
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also something something about this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation …
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