Tim Worstall deals with the geography argument.
One academic, a Dr Simon Szreter, professor of history and public policy at Cambridge University, puts this (spurious, as Tim shows) North-South divide down to “class”.
Life expectancy has a long-standing correlation with social class and income.In previous centuries, the poor lived in unsanitary conditions, and couldn't afford a decent diet, or healthcare. That's no longer true. If life expectancy is lower in poor parts of Glasgow than elsewhere in the country, it's because they spend their money on booze and fags and don't take enough exercise. They are not imprisoned by class, they are making individual choices.
Yes, healthy living may not be the norm around them, but there is plenty of information in the media. How far should the rest of us have to go to stop people making lazy victims of themselves?
1 comments:
"In previous centuries, the poor lived in unsanitary conditions, and couldn't afford a decent diet, or healthcare."
I dont know, if I didnt have to buy heath insurance, unemployment insurance and a pension from the government, I think I'd bve rich enough to enjoy a much better diet and much better examples of the other three.
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