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>Nobody lives in the Stone Age today. That’s a period of time.

Yes they do. It is a period of technological development. There is no singular timespan that makes up the stone age or bronze age or iron age, those periods are different depending on the people.

>If you’re referring to primitive tribes with no outside world contact

They have outside world contact, they simply choose to continue living the way they prefer instead of adopting modernity.

>then you’ll need to provide evidence and definitions for healthier/happier

The dictionary already does.

>They have high infant mortality rates, they kill disabled children, they die from treatable illnesses, and they starve during bad years.

The first three things are not healthy, and the last thing is false.

>Of course they have mental illness, there is no evidence they are immune to Down syndrome, schizophrenia, or anything else.

Please attempt to read what is being said rather than intentionally taking an obviously contrary definition so you have something to argue about. I am talking about the modern "mental illnesses", note the quotes, like depression and social anxiety which are epidemic in modernity, and do not exist in primitive cultures.

>Ugh, you accidentally forgot to provide any evidence of its harm again

Almost as if this is a discussion and not me publishing a scientific paper. You are welcome to look up the data linking omega 6 polyunsaturated fats to the modern disease epidemic.

>You just preceded it with another naturalistic fallacy that implied that it must be harmful because it’s industrial.

Simply repeating the fallacy fallacy is not going to accomplish anything.



Sorry mate, but your terminology doesn’t line up with other English speakers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age

The dictionary definition of happiness is not something that can be measured and compared between groups of people.

Schizophrenia is not a “modern mental illness”. It’s been around forever.

>Simply repeating the fallacy is not going to accomplish anything

Then why TF did you do it?




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