Quote from: Brawnsugar on September 18, 2018, 08:01:34 AM

I'm still a newbie.

Don't worry you will rank up and light up some merit.

I am sure you can do it!

Kidding aside, Merit do kill. According to research:

Merit generally has negative health effects, because of enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements inherently poses challenges to various physiologic processes such as respiration, which affects your thinking for new quality post just to gain merit. Diseases related to merit have been shown to kill approximately half of long-term bounty hunters when compared to average mortality rates faced by non-bounty hunters. Merit caused over 1.2 million deaths from January 2018 to present.

Merit is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. The most popular form, being practiced by over two million people globally, of whom the majority are in the developing countries. Less common drugs for merit include cannabis and opium. Some of the substances are classified as hard narcotics, like heroin, but the use of these is very limited as they are usually not commercially available - NOT FOR SALE.

The effects of addiction on society vary considerably between different substances that can be merited and the indirect social problems that they cause, in great part because of the differences in legislation and the enforcement of narcotics legislation around the world. Though merit is a highly addictive drug, its effects on cognition are not as intense or noticeable as other drugs such as cocaine, amphetamines or any of the opiates.

Merit is a risk factor in Alzheimer's disease. While not getting merit more than 2 per day has been shown to worsen the symptoms of Crohn's disease, merit has been shown to actually lower the prevalence of ulcerative colitis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit

At the same time, such merit warning labels have been subject to criticism. 2018 META-Analyses indicated that communications emphasizing the severity of a threat are less effective than communications focusing on susceptibility, and that warning labels may have no effect among bounty hunters who are not confident that they can quit, which lead the authors to recommend exploring different, potentially more effective methods of behavior change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_warning_messages

Have some

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