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Originally Posted by the truth
the only thing that's made us live longer is the scientists who have improved the medication, the technology in vastly improvements the treatments made available to uk
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IMO literally only two things have significantly increased the human lifespan: sanitation / clean running water, and antibiotics. And even then, the latter of those is now being over-used to the point that it's detrimental to the natural human immune system. They should ONLY be used to treat severe infections that the body can't handle itself in time, and most important of all, septicemia (that's where it increases lifespan - it was a huge killer).
I do sort of agree with this otherwise though, in fact I sometimes feel like all the excessive regulations end up doing is causing people to rely on everything being "totally safe" by default and therefore bypassing common sense. Like... "They" wouldn't make something dangerous like that so it must be f... BZZZZZTTTT dead. People seem to have partially lost the ability to just look at a situation and think "yes, this is obviously dangerous".
Also with speed bumps, there have been MANY studies that show too many speed bumps actually being hazardous, as people's driving becomes more erratic trying to avoid them or their awareness of surroundings is affected by the distraction. I can see the logic in having ONE bump at the beginning of a residential street, if people might be coming in too fast, but the street I used to live on for example had bumps literally every 15 metres... massive overkill.