The Linux source code is also online…

If something is $20 and I buy it with $100 bill, doesn’t mean it cost me $100.

Now something like the zika virus which sterilized men several years ago dud cost lives. Lives that may of been made but can no longer.

That is the difference. Each death from smoking or a tsunami or a mass murderer costed years of potential life but didnt cost the whole life.

To make it more complicated does every decade matter the same? Does your twenty’s when you are out partying matter as much as your thirty/forties when you are most profitable for your capitalist overloads? What about your nineties when you are frail of health but hopefully surrounded by loved ones?

Yes it’s less extreme language. It’s doesn’t manipulate emotions as much, that’s the point.

I hate when articles say “will cost X number of lives”. No it won’t. It will cut them short, it will costs years off people’s lives. Unless it’s sterilized people it won’t cost lives.

A person may die at 40 instead of 80 but that is still a life.