(July 23, 2011 at 2:53 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Insensitive? Perhaps.
Nope. It's like I told my wife, once you engage in self-destructive behavior for so long, producing an early death is foreseeable. Then you either continue at your own risk, or you make changes in your life. One of my best friends died from drug abuse and it is very sad. It is not, however, beyond our control, and we choose to face the risk by behaving this way.
When you play with fire, sometimes you get burned.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell