Or, stick to the HN guidelines.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think this attempts to disregard the very real, human experiences and emotions of the commentator for the sake of self satisfaction, and only serves to alienate. Even if you're right, there are other ways to go about it.

To some extent some of those problems are better solved without technology.

- The diabetes and obesity crisis in America can't be cured by technology.

- IVF is often due to advanced aging, due to pressure to work later

- There was a time when kids could be left unattended 100 years ago. I'm curious why this has changed so much.

Agreed, technology is often the easy way out of things that can and when possible should be solved without, Type II is a great example of this. It costs 1 in 4 healthcare dollars in the US. [1] It is curable, permanently, through diet and weight loss, and as recent studies show potentially just fasting [2].

Kids can be left unattended right now in Japan, it's also a cultural thing. There was a great Citylab writeup about this a few years back. It's typical for Japanese children to run errands alone via the subway at age six. FTA "'[Japanese] kids learn early on that, ideally, any member of the community can be called on to serve or help others.'" [3]

[1] http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2018/03/20/dc...

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170223124259.h...

[3] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-littl...

Type 1 diabetes can't be cured nor avoided by lifestyle changes.

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