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Re:An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry by dragons on Monday December 19, 2011 @06:38PM (#3371589)
The fatalistic, egotistical and selfish attitude epitomised by women being unconcerned about losing their uterus

I agree that it's fatalistic. But it's the opposite of egotistical and selfish. People with healthy egos generally care a lot about whether they will their lose organs, or their lives. The women in question apparently don't. From the article: 'So what? How long are we going to live anyway?'.

And maybe their lives suck so much that this attitude is understandable.

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Re:An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry by eru on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @02:01AM (#3376647)
It's more about caring about myself now, versus caring about my later self.

It's probably better to analyse this in terms of discounting rates (i.e. interest rates).

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