Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by Fomite on Saturday November 26, 2016 @07:34PM
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As with many things, this is also more complex. This article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303694650_Primate_r... suggests that higher status animal in this particular group have a higher parasite burden.
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Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by daodedickinson on Saturday November 26, 2016 @07:57PM
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Nietszche says to measure one's strength by the number of parasites one can support.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by reflexive on Saturday November 26, 2016 @09:37PM
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"It is not impossible to imagine society so conscious of its power that it
could allow itself the noblest luxury available to it, – that of letting its malefactors go unpunished. ‘What do I care about my parasites’, it could
say, ‘let them live and flourish: I am strong enough for all that!’ . . . Justice,
which began by saying ‘Everything can be paid off, everything must be
paid off ’, ends by turning a blind eye and letting off those unable to pay,
– it ends, like every good thing on earth, by sublimating itself. The self-sublimation
of justice: we know what a nice name it gives itself – mercy;
it remains, of course, the prerogative of the most powerful man, better
still, his way of being beyond the law." -- Genealogy of Morals, 2nd Essay, Chapter 10
"In the spot where the strong are weak, where the noble are over tender, there the parasite builds its horrid nest; dwelling in the sick corners of the great man . . . and it is just the highest species that harbors the greatest number of parasites." -- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part 3, Section 56: "On Old and New Tablets", Number 19
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by platz on Saturday November 26, 2016 @11:57PM
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He's talking about Basic Income y'all.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by RobertoG on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:13AM
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Maybe. The funny thing is that, as is always the case, other interpretation it's possible too: only societies with excedents can afford super rich.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by RockyMcNuts on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:33PM
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Low status is stressful. And so is high status.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by interfixus on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:18AM
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Forced, involuntary low status is stressful.
Opting out and just not giving a four letter word does not have to be.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by Fomite on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:58PM
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The suggestion is more high status -> more exposure to any parasite whose transmission isn't environmentally mediated.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system'
by spacehacker on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:48AM
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I enjoy my stress with sauna, massages and whine.