Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them

Re:Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them by whatshisface on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:26PM (#17659172)

The motivational quotes are told to people because for every ex-paratrooper or person with naturally bad knees, there are hundreds of people with perfectly fine health that they're neglecting or abusing. Being a paratrooper is almost as uncommon as being lazy is common. People with chronic health problem just end up caught in the crossfire between lazy people telling each other to work harder.

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Re:Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them by dvtrn on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:22AM (#17659636)

there are hundreds of people with perfectly fine health that they're neglecting or abusing

Let's not ignore the other option (among many) which is: people in perfectly fine health who aren't particularly fond of having the ideals and opinions of the hyper-health conscious and uber-active lifestyle types projected onto them from someone who doesn't have the letters M.D. following their surname.

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Re:Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them by watwut on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @02:23AM (#17660143)

Running marathon is not healthy. It is abusing your body more then is healthy for it. Additionally, people with zero relevant health problems for normal life can still have conditions that prevents them to run marathon. Whether joint normally-non-conditions or hearth normally-non-conditions or I dont know what.

Also, training for marathon requires a lot of time and there is opportunity cost there. I will not blame father for spending his time with kids instead of training for marathon or what not. Nor someone who spends time educating himself rather then physically training. Or reading book, washing dishes or just having time consuming job.

The motivational quotes are told to make people feel good.

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