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The whole culture around extreme spice is incredibly stupid. Idiot: "I dare you!" Intelligent person: "No, I choose not to torture myself." Other idiot: "Wha
by ilaksh 3y ago
The whole culture around extreme spice is incredibly stupid.
Idiot: "I dare you!"
Intelligent person: "No, I choose not to torture myself."
Other idiot: "What are you, afraid??!"
Intelligent person: "Yes, I don't like pain and discomfort, and I don't see any reason to subject myself to it."
After a certain level of "heat", it's not food and shouldn't be treated as such.
- aaron695 3y ago[flagged]
- watwut 3y agoYou don't have to do stupid or dangerous things to challenge yourself. You can even, gasp, moderate the amount of danger involved. And doing something because you are afraid to look weak is just being sheep.
- nscalf 3y agoSometimes doing stupid things is fun. That’s the point.
- dagw 3y agoI don't like pain and discomfort To be fair, some of my favourite experiences have been preceded by pain, discomfort and risk.
- justanotherjoe 3y agoThere is a psychological study, where two group of people are asked to do some task for pay. Afterward they have to rate how engaging was the task they have to do. The group who are paid well reported that the work was boring. While the group who are paid little reported that the task was fun and challenging. The task was the same for both groups, but the first one justifies it by having compensation. While the second one by making the task fun or more cynically by deluding themselves that it has some kind of value.
- BoorishBears 3y agoEven cynically, can it be considered delusion? If someone does manage to convince themselves internally that they're having fun, there's no way to externally make that statement false: they really did have fun
- dekhn 3y agothats type 2 fun.