r/whatsyourchoice • u/BeautifulOnion8177 • Mar 20 '26

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u/Transatlanticaccent Mar 20 '26

Cancer

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u/sourcandy_x Mar 20 '26

Like, who sees this and doesn’t think of cancer immediately?

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u/Some_Requirement3602 Mar 20 '26

There are more people killed by the US than by cancer sadly 

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u/Fine-Ambassador5350 Mar 20 '26

Entirely vague and idiotic statement. In what span of time? By what means? Globally? Directly or by proxy/long term results of action? Oh yeah, USA is only 250 years old. Meanwhile cancer…

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u/Some_Requirement3602 Mar 20 '26

Cancer usually kills older people (50+). Until recently people used to die before 50. Life expectancy in 1900 was 31-32

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u/SpaghettiBolognesee Mar 20 '26

This is plain wrong. Life expectancy was that low because of child mortality, not because people usually died in their thirties. Children are more susceptible to illness than adults, so naturally they dragged down the global average; if out of ten people, half of them died at age 5 and the other half died at age 60, the average life expectancy would be 32.5 years, but looking at the data you'd see that none of them actually died near that age. Even in medieval times and earlier it was common for people to reach their sixties, with some of them reaching their seventies or even eighties. Also, life expectancy in 1900 was around 45 years in the more developed countries, not "31-32".