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There's no "safe" level of sunlight, even if you wear sunscreen.
Yeah but you don't have to drink alcohol to live.
Going outside is unavoidable and using sunscreen, long clothing and a hat, protects you from a lot of the radiation damage.
Most outdoor activities are avoidable. Avoiding those activities entirely is safer than wearing protection.
Indoor humans represent!
If outside was completely avoidable, I absolutely would.
To each their own.
Personally, I don't mind sitting outside in the sun. It's a good place to have a beer.
10 minutes of sun per day is typically less likely to give you cancer than 0 minutes. Vitamin D (and other compounds involved in the synthesis from cholesterol that you won't get in supplements) upregulate DNA repair polymerases that protect against carcinogens. Of course after a few minutes the costs of UV exposure outweight this benefit though.
Try living with out getting any sunlight
You could certainly try to keep your sunlight exposure to a bare minimum.
Or you can just weigh the inherent risks of doing things you enjoy.
That is a highly myopic, frankly stupid, opinion that isn't even yours - you're just repeating things that you heard.
The deleterious health effects from not getting sun exposure vastly outweigh the potential DNA damage from sun exposure.
Can you quote the section of my comment that has gotten you so upset please?
I want to know exactly which bit of what I wrote instigated this response, so I know how to reply properly.
I take plenty of vitamin D every day
What deleterious health effects from not getting sun exposure?
Vitamin D deficiency. Rickets. Osteopathic problems. Seasonal Affective Disorder. Weight gain. Etc.
https://distance.physiology.med.ufl.edu/what-are-the-effects-of-not-getting-enough-sunlight/
They make vitamin D pills
You can get the RDA of vitamin D from a healthy diet, without need for sunlight.
Weight gain is caused by diet and lack of exercise, not lack of sunlight.
SAD can be treated with non-carcinogenic lamps.