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If I may join in this game of hubris, I have discovered a pattern as well. Report 1: Milk is amazing for you. Report 2: We were wrong, milk is terrible for you
by silentsea90 6y ago
If I may join in this game of hubris, I have discovered a pattern as well.
Report 1: Milk is amazing for you.
Report 2: We were wrong, milk is terrible for you
Report 3: Milk may have some benefits
Report n: Whew, milk is good within bounds
Repeat for chocolate, microservices, meditation, religion, wine, nuclear power
- frequentnapper 6y agocounter-examples: heroin, opiates, rat poison, etc.
- 8note 6y agoThose have all reached the good within bounds, no?
- sesm 6y agoHow about smoking? Report 1: Smoking is good because it makes you more masculine. Report 2: Smoking is bad because it causes lung cancer. Report N: Smoking is still bad.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoAlso, wine. No amount of alcohol over any time period has been found to be beneficial, it was just feelgood crap wineries/breweries told us.
- silentsea90 6y agoPossible, but the generally held belief is that a bit of red wine is good for you
- frequentnapper 6y agoAlcohol can be beneficial in terms of it being a "social glue" whether you personally believe it or not. Within reason is fine, and won't make you an alcoholic. So that doesn't fit the counter examples.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoOf course there's happiness benefits to it in social settings, not disputing that. Just saying that, in a vacuum, any amount of alcohol is harmful to the human body. The "1 glass of red wine per day" is BS.
- fn1 6y agoThis is called the dialectic of german philosopher Hegel. He called it: Thesis, Antitheses and Synthesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
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