Why do some people get cancer?

[Joshe]

It's like being born red-headed, it’s one of the many possible outcomes in a life shaped by forces set in motion long before you could influence any of it. The causal chain runs through people, not from them. There's way more that we can't influence than what we can. I'm guessing maybe generally 95/5, but it would vary depending on a few key variables. 

Maybe the real question is how we meet what we didn't choose.

[Inliytened1]

1 minute ago, Joshe said:

It's like being born red-headed, it’s one of the many possible outcomes in a life shaped by forces set in motion long before you could influence any of it. The causal chain runs through people, not from them. There's way more that we can't influence than what we can. I'm guessing maybe generally 95/5, but it would vary depending on a few key variables. 

Maybe the real question is how we meet what we didn't choose.

Here is the tricky thing about reality. If it is objective that would be true. But if its subjective it would hinge on only you getting cancer and you haven't yet.  When you do you do.

[Joshe]

30 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

Here is the tricky thing about reality. If it is objective that would be true. But if its subjective it would hinge on only you getting cancer and you haven't yet.  When you do you do.

Seems odd to me to split reality into two buckets. When you conjure the construct or allow it to slip away, there’s the relative. Both are experiences that share the same background. They’re both just conceptual toggles.  

[Inliytened1]

2 minutes ago, Joshe said:

Seems odd to me to split reality into two buckets. When you conjure the construct or allow it to slip away, there’s the relative. Both are experiences that share the same background. They’re both just conceptual toggles.  

Very profound even if subjectively you cant control reality the differences are extremely profound. Wouldn't you want to know if Mars existed independent of your Consciousness or not.