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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by IAmLiterallyAB on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:41PM (#41029816)
Perhaps but people weren't getting dementia at 40 back then. It's not really relevant what the average life expectancy was
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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by drewcoo on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:06PM (#41030565)
> people weren't getting dementia at 40 back then

Citation needed. That claim seems clouded by today's standard of living.

Before there was clean drinking water, alcohol was much more widely consumed. Were people demented, drunk, or experiencing alcoholic dementia?

Before OSHA, jobs could cause similar symptoms. "Mad as a hatter" referred to hat-makers commonly getting mercury poisoning, as one example of job-induced dementia.

Before the FDA, we have examples from food and medicine.

Etc.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by krapp on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:46PM (#41029848)
>Perhaps but people weren't getting dementia at 40 back then.

Exactly. There's no point in putting an upper age limit on a position when no one lives long enough for age to even be a factor.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by dllthomas on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:45PM (#41030455)
Except many of the actual people with their names on that document lived to be older than Biden is now.
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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by the_sleaze_ on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:12PM (#41030596)
The average life expectancy was much lower, but there were plenty of gray-beards around.

Socrates made it to 71.

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