third-time-charmed t1_j15hs12 wrote
Reply to comment by Sventipluk in Anarchism at the End of the World: A defence of the instinct that won’t go away by Sventipluk
While that might be true for some things, such as situational depressions or disabilities that fit the social model better- the flu isn't societal. Cancer isn't societal (there are prehistoric skeletal remains with bone cancer). Norovirus, strep throat, measles, mumps. None of those are societal. Claiming otherwise is a rejection of the germ theory of disease, implicitly.
Sventipluk OP t1_j15kcbu wrote
> Cancer isn't societal (there are prehistoric skeletal remains with bone cancer).
The rarity of cancer in antiquity remains undisputed..
> Claiming otherwise is a rejection of the germ theory of disease, implicitly.
The author isn’t claiming otherwise.
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