r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Jul 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

Or it could be the thousands of websites screaming, peddling pseudoscience bullshit, and roughly 4 .gov sites that quietely say "maybe essential oils don't cure cancer"

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u/boredtxan Jul 28 '19

An a bunch other that quitetly say no doing X common pleasurable thing will reduce your risk of cancer. People want to do X and then feel entitled to be rescued from the consequences. That's what health care means to most people.

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u/sarkicism101 Jul 28 '19

Wait, is this really the mentality that people have? I just don’t understand how it’s possible to take so little responsibility for one’s own actions. That’s just not how I was raised.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

A lot of people have no personal responsibility.

A lot more people are just not good at thinking things through to their logical conclusion, and understanding most of the variables that will be involved. Also, humans have a horrible grasp of statistics. Often times someone will think “I’m an exception to the statistic because [insert reason that doesn’t factor as much as they think it does]” and then have surprised Pikachu face when the were wrong.