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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments

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Is There a Line of Culpability in Lung Cancer?

It seems like there is a culpability of people who do a thing which then causes a thing to happen, that we're sort of playing off the back of you. I mean, imagine, for example, that we could prove, somehow, through some developed technology, that, yes, you this person got lung cancer because they smoked. Fine. Give it to them. And every other smoker was an in an athlete that dedicated their lives to being fit and healthy. Apart from the smoking. It would be a kind of rage in juicing. We might think that we should, we should do that. But it's less obviously fair that somebody with a calcium deficiency should not be prioritized

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