There is “thats just life”. Grandma got cancer with no major risk factors? Just life. The tornado hit town instead of jumping it? Just life.
All sorts of shit’s just life, but also a lot of “just life” can happen a hell of a lot less. Better health and safety standards mean less grandmas get cancer, and better access to Healthcare means more of them will go into remission. Dealing with climate change will mean less averse weather events, or at least not rapidly increasing numbers of them.
Conservatives get stuck on the fact that bad shit is always gonna happen, and so they don’t notice that it didn’t used to happen fucking constantly
Exactly. Capitalism hates resilience because until you need it, it’s waste. And when you need it, well, “that’s life” and “no one could have seen this widely predicted thing happen”.
It’s just another way they privatize profits and socialize losses.
No, it isn’t “that’s just life”. Everything happens because of a reason. We live in a material world made up of countless particles, bumping and slamming into each other, interacting in countless ways according to certain physical laws. Some of these laws we understand; most of them we have no idea and just approximate as best we can with what we know. That’s science.
Grandma got cancer? That is because of genetic mutations, the mechanisms of which we don’t fully understand and may have potential causes that are unknown to us. We just haven’t put the puzzle together.
Tornado hitting town instead of jumping it? A tornado is caused by specific atmospheric conditions. With enough precision in monitoring and observing all the data you could estimate exactly why a tornado lost intensity and stopped touching ground for a period of time. We just don’t because that isn’t very useful to be that precise barring conducting a specific study involving those data points.
The only thing that is ever “just life” is “things changing with the passing of time”. Why those changes are happening the way they are? Well, that’s a lot more complicated than we like to admit we know about.
But as you said, it’s a matter of perspective. Knowing why doesn’t always help prevent it and there are varying opinions on the degree to which we should go for preventative measures as well as how to apply them.
There is “thats just life”. Grandma got cancer with no major risk factors? Just life. The tornado hit town instead of jumping it? Just life.
All sorts of shit’s just life, but also a lot of “just life” can happen a hell of a lot less. Better health and safety standards mean less grandmas get cancer, and better access to Healthcare means more of them will go into remission. Dealing with climate change will mean less averse weather events, or at least not rapidly increasing numbers of them.
Conservatives get stuck on the fact that bad shit is always gonna happen, and so they don’t notice that it didn’t used to happen fucking constantly
Exactly. Capitalism hates resilience because until you need it, it’s waste. And when you need it, well, “that’s life” and “no one could have seen this widely predicted thing happen”.
It’s just another way they privatize profits and socialize losses.
No, it isn’t “that’s just life”. Everything happens because of a reason. We live in a material world made up of countless particles, bumping and slamming into each other, interacting in countless ways according to certain physical laws. Some of these laws we understand; most of them we have no idea and just approximate as best we can with what we know. That’s science.
Grandma got cancer? That is because of genetic mutations, the mechanisms of which we don’t fully understand and may have potential causes that are unknown to us. We just haven’t put the puzzle together.
Tornado hitting town instead of jumping it? A tornado is caused by specific atmospheric conditions. With enough precision in monitoring and observing all the data you could estimate exactly why a tornado lost intensity and stopped touching ground for a period of time. We just don’t because that isn’t very useful to be that precise barring conducting a specific study involving those data points.
The only thing that is ever “just life” is “things changing with the passing of time”. Why those changes are happening the way they are? Well, that’s a lot more complicated than we like to admit we know about.
But as you said, it’s a matter of perspective. Knowing why doesn’t always help prevent it and there are varying opinions on the degree to which we should go for preventative measures as well as how to apply them.