I’d like to take a moment to address your first sentence. Whose going to determine what treatments are worth performing and being covered by insurance and what ones aren’t? At what point should the cutoff occur? Is a 20% chance of success too low? 30% 40%? Where is the line where it’s no longer acceptable to try and prolong someone’s life? Should it be on a sliding scale based on their age? Take of 10% for every decade over 60? Whose to say those procedures won’t extend that persons life by a decent margin? They’re long shots not impossibilities, otherwise insurance wouldn’t cover them. Most insurance companies don’t cover experimental surgeries for instance because they aren’t proven to be effective yet. Do we really think it’s a good idea to start making it even harder for the average person to achieve the same level of care as wealthy individuals would?

Would it though? There’s so many factors involved. Stress for example often causes people to revert to old bad habits even if they’re self destructive.

I never claimed “blacks don’t have the willpower to break bad eating habits” I claimed that bad habits when started at a young age are difficult for anyone to break. That’s been studied and confirmed. You’re trying awfully hard to twist a specific narrative out of my words.

Once poor eating habits are established it can be very difficult to change them. Ergo if you grow up eating largely junk food you’ll probably continue to make poor nutritional choices even if you have the means to do better than that. You’re jumping to conclusions off of a flawed premise.

Obesity was always seen as a sign of wealth historically because in those times rich people were the only ones who could afford to eat enough to get fat and didn’t have to work in hard labor for a living. That’s no longer the case. There are plenty of very poor people who can still afford food just not good food and very few people work hard labor like those in medieval or renaissance societies did. Historical circumstances and reasoning don’t really apply here as societal norms have changed so much since that time.

I mean the black population in the US is disproportionately poor (which is undeniably linked to systemic racism). Poor individuals typically eat junk food most of the time because it’s fast and easy to make and in many cases significantly cheaper than healthier options. So yes I mean you can somewhat link eating habits to racism in this case. Is it the whole story no, is it a factor absolutely.

We have many examples of how human soft tissue appears on the average person, assuming this individual had no more able deformities this would be fairly accurate. We have no idea what dinosaur soft tissue would have looked like, that’s what makes accurate dioramas of them from nothing but their bones so difficult. Also human soft tissue and the way it attaches to bones is a very different study from feathers on dinosaurs, a better comparison would be trying to say what human hair looked like from just our bones and no other frame of reference.

Exactly, having something worth remembering plays a huge roll. When you’re alone most of the time and everyday feels the same your mind is likely to see most things as useless information.