Why in god's name are we all still alive?

[Shardik]

I mean tobacco kills x # of people daily,
The fats in beef,
Butter,
Caffeine,
Alcohol,
Sweeteners,
Turkey,
Chicken,
Fish,
Cars,
Guns,
Pit Bulls,
Illicit sex,
Drugs,
Doctors,
Religion... etc.

Read your favorite repport on any of these things and add up the number of daily or hourly deaths they all cause and I bet you will find that we should have a negative number of people living in this country (or the world) today.

[nickgutierrez]

1. The world's population is estimated to be 6.72 billion.

Or, 6,720,000,000.

That's a really huge number. It's hard to conceive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

[Shardik]

2. aven't you heard those stats saying 7 people die every 30 seconds due to X here in America?

14x60=840 per hour x 24 = 20160 which means roughly 7.25 million a year.

Now, find all the stats that make such claims and add them together. Then add in the war dead and other natural causes, put them in a timeline....


I think that with a bit of work you could come up with a negative number.

[nickgutierrez]

5. I'm sure there is quite a bit of overlap in those statistics

For example, let's say a drunk driver skids off the road and crashes into a tree. One death for alcohol, one death in a car accident, one death for left-handed diabetics named Tim (if this particular hypothetical person happened to be a left-handed diabetic named Tim), and so on.

[Shardik]

6. Very true! And that's the point I guess I'm trying to make.

And the statistical silliness that is so often used to make points in today's culture.

[hobbit709]

18. To a statistician

If you got one foot in a freezer and one foot on a hot stove, on the average you're comfortable.

[Critters2]

4. Conceiving doesn't seem to be the problem. nt

[Generic Brad]

7. Of course it would be hard to conceive 6.72 billion

Even with fertility drugs, that's a pretty tall order.

[Dystopian]

3. omg!

I should be dead. I've come in contact with all of the above during my life.
I'm a vegetarian, but I held a gun once when I was drunk:scared:
I even slept with a pit bull a couple of times:P

peace~

[Cults4Bush]

8. Depends on which gods name ya mean there.

also if they would have jurisdiction in total or in part over those about to die and their respective means and methods of extermination and termination of bodily functions...and alas the lens of individual interpretation from subjective personal experience in the observation and/or knowledge of those deaths should apply as well.

In other words its all bullshit, much as you have probably surmised :)

[jobycom]

9. Just eat fat, smoke, and play Russian Roullette. When the Lord wants you, he'll claim you.

That's what I always hear from my late 30s obese diabetic smoking co-workers as to why the coughs, wheezes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels mean nothing.

[Shardik]

12. And I'm sure that you abide by every warning by every "foundation"

to assure you live forever?

Don't eat meat.
Only Organic veggies.
Live outside a city far enough to not be affected by exhaust.
Stay out of the sun.
Live in a bubble?

[jobycom]

13. Why would you be sure of anything about me?

:shrug:

[rcrush]

10. I smoke tons and tons of weed.

I believe it has made me immune to all forms of disease. I an quite possible the most perfect person on the planet.

[gemdem]

11. Us and cockroaches...

there's just no getting rid of us.

[Breeze54]

14. Because I refuse to give up.

:P

:hi:

[peruban]

15. We're all just corpses waiting in line, anyway.

I got my ticket at the counter.

[Deja Q]

16. Who cares? Do 'em all and demand it all be legal and tolerated! There's no point anymore!

:woohoo:

























:sarcasm:

[hobbit709]

17. You can walk down the street on a clear sunny day and get hit by lighning.

Sooner or later something will kill you. The most dangerous day of your life is your last one-you found something you couldn't beat.