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Assuming you are not being disingenuous: there is a trade off with a lot of uncertainty - other things are also implicated in stomach cancer, and at the same time untreated dental disease causes other health problems too.

But I prefer to rely on brushing my own teeth and avoiding certain foods to maintain my own health, rather than have a medication added to my water supply because the guy next door does not take care of his health.

I once hypothetically saved a few dozen colleagues from dying in a fire. All of these people had at least a degree and many were educated to PhD.

The fire alarm sounded and at the bottom of a stairwell the exit door would not release until someone operated the emergency release break-glass panel. But none of these educated people grasped that. Worse still, none of them thought to use a nearby heavy steel trolley as a battering ram. One guy is trying to phone for help, which was pointless as the alarm sound makes conversation impossible.

I'm one of the last down the stairs. I look at the people, the closed door, the steel trolley, and the emergency door release panel. Realising I'm not going to have the fun of trashing the doors, I operate the release panel and we all leave.

A lot of people have to work two jobs just to afford food and shelter. Granted there are also people trying to live a Champaign lifestyle on a lemonade budget, but how do you address the first group?

That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you.

I comment I read somewhere was that SQL goes from basic to advanced with nothing in between. It's a slippery slope of course: you start writing your own query and then you figure a more sophisticated query would be helpful and pretty soon you're having to care about optimisation and indexes.

Lots of societies around the world have a tradition of 'blood money' in the sense of financial compensation for killing or other serious harm. It's not surprising to find that kind of thinking in America since it is a society comprised of migrants from all over the world.

Piracy may have been displaced into Netflix password sharing, or diminished and replaced by bona fide streaming subscriptions (why pirate if you can get what you want at a low price). But falling real incomes and Netflix tightening up on 'free' users could see more pirating.