Today my housemate offered me the left over supari from his gutkha (flavoured tobacco often used as a mouth freshner). When I saw this simple but direct warning ('Causes Cancer') I burst out laughing. It was kind of funny in a very dark way.
But then I realised that whatever things we get pure pleasure from lead to harming us in one way or the other.
-Cigarettes cause cancer and other stuff.
-More sex we have higher the chances of getting some STD or cancer (since more sex we have more sperm is produced in our body, more the cells split and more is the chance of a mutation).
-Driving can get you killed.
-Playing computer games can screw up your eyes.
-Drinking can get you in trouble.
Maybe it is in human nature to seek pleasure in things which lead to our destruction.
Seeking pleasure in sin. Or maybe that is what keeps us from becoming a boring bunch of people and keeps us striving for the stars.
2 comments:
:) ya i kno what drinking can get u into (been there done tht) :).. just didnt feel like going into details.. hehe the gross details ;)
well see the thing is.. more sex u have more sperm cells u produce.. that means more cells have to divide in order to keep up the supply... more splitting means more chances of harmful mutations... thts why cancers usually occour where cells divide a lot during the human lifespan such as on the skin which continuously regenerates itself.
Now ofcourse I did not mean tht there is a straight link thts y i mention STDs.
Check out the book 'Genome' by Matt Ridely for more such connections.
I agree with 1 and 2. But the issue with risk assessment is that often its VERY difficult to do it.
also risk assessment can often lead u to worry and stress over things which might never happen and thus the loop starts again!
:D tis a wicked world we live in ;)
Okei your new Fetish photgraphing Gutka!!!
Kool... keep it up!!!
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