You'll live longer if you?

Question:

You'll live longer if you?

avoid this risk

adopt this safe behavior

voluntarily narrow the boundaries of your life

allow the government to reduce the number of dangerous choices available to you

Are these statements examples of a pervasive societal and socially acceptable cowardice?

Is thorough reading and serious consideration of them a bland acceptance that cowardice, preoccupation with death, prolonging life as the ultimate priority, is a virtue?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Many in contemporary world believe and/or would have everyone else believe that the authoritarian, bureaucratic elements of our society, namely: Fundamentalist-Scientists, Doctors, Politicians, Corporate Business Leaders, Judges, and the elites of media and entertainment, (essentially all with Money, Power, and Attention), for whatever reason KNOW... and we MUST LISTEN TO THEM!
"Recent studies show..."
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"A recent poll..."
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"Martin Scorsese, Madonna, Oprah, and Sting say..."
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"The President issues..."
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"Congress..."
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"Doctors advocate..."
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"Pharmaceutical companies affirm that in order to be a healthy, normal, human who has overcome Nature one must be prescribed 10 different medicines, which each have 10 side-effects, that in-turn require 10 other medicines..."
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War on Terror...
You MUST have Democracy at the barrel of an M-16
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War on Drugs...
Opium production goes UP in Afghanistan [hmm, that's curious]...
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But as long as we view the likes of Donald Trump as an American Icon, Oprah as a Hero; agree with whatever Nancy Grace, Bill O'Reilly, and Barbara Walters have to say; believe that Congress is acting in the people's interests and not their own, that Doctors are concerned for our health and well-being and not their billion dollar homes and golfing vacations... we are good little citizens!