Interesting. I guess it pays to not be a fat mess and actually take care of yourself, even if it does sound incredibly hippy-ish.
Jones has suffered an accident in the transmitter room of a television station. Electrical equipment has fallen on his arm, and we cannot rescue him without turning off the transmitter for fifteen minutes. A World Cup match is in progress, watched by many people, and it will not be over for an hour. Jones's injury will not get any worse if we wait, but his hand has been mashed and he is receiving extremely painful electrical shocks. Should we rescue him now or wait until the match is over? Does the right thing to do depend on how many people are watching...?
-T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe Each Other, p 235