In the last five years we have solved the scourge of peanuts. When I grew up if you had a peanut allergy you were screwed. Now just mention to an airline that you have one and they'll (likely) pull every peanut off that plane. Mention it at a conference, they might just ban it from everybody. So why are we so understanding when someone has a peanut allergy, which is a very real thing, but we are unable to wrap our head around how to help the 116,000 people that die each year and is the leading cause of death amongst Americans age 18 to 49?
The answer is the average person doesn't think a peanut allergy is a moral failing. The average person doesn't think “Can't Uncle Sean just pull it together and not have a peanut allergy this Christmas?”
