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>>bondar+(OP)
> It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them.

I wouldn't say so at all. Poor eyesight carries on smartly. Baldness. I enjoy both.

But an old story about the controller code for a surface-to-air missile comes to mind.

Someone looking at the memory allocator spots an obvious resource leak: "This code is going to crash."

The reply was that, while the point was theoretically valid, it was irrelevant, since the system itself would detonate long before resource exhaustion became an issue.

So too prostate cancer back in the day: war, famine and plague were keeping the lifespan well below the threshold of every man's time bomb.

>>smitty+Q7
> I wouldn't say so at all. Poor eyesight carries on smartly. Baldness. I enjoy both.

What is the problem with baldness other than having a cheap excuse for not being successful in life? I actually enjoy looking a bit like Larry Fink.

>>jansan+6b
Most people find it less attractive. Usually things that happen when you age are viewed that way, which makes sense, evolutionarily.

>>AuryGl+qA
For me it was mostly just a major psychological stressor because it happened at a young age. I felt like an old man at 20 years old.