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by renewiltord 475 days ago
You have created for yourself a prison and you think it inevitable that everyone else will do the same. None of what you're describing is normative. And yes, some people will have outlier bad luck. That's life and it sucks for them, but diseases that have an 0.2% prevalence are rare. There's no reason to reroute all of society to cover Meniere's.
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> And yes, some people will have outlier bad luck. That's life and it sucks for them, but diseases that have an 0.2% prevalence are rare. There's no reason to reroute all of society to cover Meniere's.

Meniere's is a placeholder illness; it was there to help frame the scenario. It is curious that you didn't understand that.

But okay. If it helps make the lives of others easier to understand, then please choose one of the other thousands of life-altering illnesses. How about Lupus? Or Trigeminal Neuralgia, Ataxia, Fibromyalgia, Gaucher's disease, schizophrenia, Guillain–Barré syndrome, Parkinson's, Lyme's disease - any debilitating illness you want.

Because that's what happens to people. Not all but certainly not a tiny minority.

Some people receive few enough challenges that their A-Game + luck is enough to secure a stable life. The countless others work with what they have and make the best that can be made from that.

No one, anywhere has a choice of whether or not the uncontrollable challenges of life will exceed their very best.

Yeah, this 0.2% of the population means 640,000 people. For one disease. There's more than one disease out there.

So for these people it's bad luck, sucks to be them. For your success, it's all hard work.