What I find fascinating in the Covid era is how some people who have developed serious health issues became wearier of risky behavior and more thoughtful about their choices, but many others have instead doubled down on risky behavior because “life is short.” There’s zero introspection that their own behavior might be making it much shorter. Almost as if that’s an impossibility. They’ll say becoming sick made them value their life more, but their actions contradict that purported belief.
@Lizette603_23 The thing is, I don’t even consider many of them to be stupid people. Perhaps their actions can be construed that way, but they themselves are not inherently dumb (at least the ones I know personally). It’s fascinating to me largely because it’s such a different reaction to my own. I can understand their rationale to a degree, but it also isn’t logical to me. Live and let live I guess, or not in many cases. Wish we didn’t all have to suffer the consequences of other’s choices.
@QuietLurker It's what happens when we share space on a planet or city. I hear you. I do not give space to the so-called logic of their decisions, however, because, as you say, the logic breaks down immediately regarding "life". But I'm old, chronically ill and don't have room for someone else's impatient "research" to support "what I WANNA DO" (foot stomp). It's all so childish.
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