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Do you have evidence to support that you do not 'troll'?
by ectoplasm 11y ago
Do you have evidence to support that you do not 'troll'?
- bryanlarsen 11y agoSugar, fat and salt taste good. That means that humans and animals evolved to seek them out. If they were unequivocally bad for us, we would have evolved to find them disgusting.
- gaius 11y agoWe evolved those tastes at a time when 1) those things were much harder to get and b) energy needs were higher due to more physical lifestyles. If you are burning 5000 calories a day hunting or farming, eat all the sugar and fat you want (and can get by your own efforts). But if you are burning 2000 calories a day sitting at a desk... You can't debate food in a vacuum without considering lifestyle.
- DanBC 11y agoSo it's okay to drink sea water?
- ectoplasm 11y agoYou could probably cook pasta with it.
- bryanlarsen 11y agodoes it taste good?
- drdeca 11y agoWell, trolling is I think largely based on intent. If one does not believe that they were trolling (i.e. they do not believe that they were doing what trolling is. This is a belief about what they were doing, not a belief about what the word "trolling" means), then that seems like fairly good evidence that they were not trolling. I don't know what would be a better (and available) measure of one's intent than one's own perception of one's own intent. (Of course, one could imagine that there might be a better source, but in practice I think it is the best evidence we have). This would only be as convincing to oneself I suppose, but I think that one's memory of one's intent is generally fairly good evidence to present to oneself to show that one was not trolling.