HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

If cancer were cured, would you stop eating meat?


If cancer were gone, other risks—heart disease, accidents—matter more.

Would you change your habits to maximize lifespan? Stop eating meat, drive less, exercise obsessively?

How far would you go?


  👤 Ekaros Accepted Answer ✓
Lifespan or enjoyment of life? At half way point, I feel like I much more value enjoyment that comes from poor diet and laziness than potentially extra 10 or 20 years... I really don't feel fear of dying...

👤 CoderLim110
If science can cure cancer, maybe someday it’ll make lab-grown meat that tastes even better.

👤 incomingpain
>If cancer were gone, other risks

Cancer(excluding pancreatic and couple others) has been cured. This is 0% risk to me. Feel free not to believe me, it doesnt bother me at all. The discussion is habit change.

>heart disease,

Heart disease is a bit wider, but risk here is very manageable. Cerebral/stroke also very manageable risk. I really should get a gym membership.

>accidents—matter more.

Absolutely. I'm ridiculously paranoid about accident risk. I dont speed while driving anymore. But this goes to far more than that.

>Would you change your habits to maximize lifespan?

Absolutely, I made that huge change. Multiple ways.

> Stop eating meat,

The opposite, far more meat, less sugar and carbs. If I had a butler robot cooking for me, id have them cooking all of the meats.

>?drive less, exercise obsessively?

I absolutely should exercise obsessively. I should do better here I mnow.

>How far would you go?

Further than you expect.


👤 JohnFen
I'm not interested in maximizing lifespan, honestly. Quality over quantity.