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>seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain I mean, that's because that's literally what they need to believe. A majority of people has
by Barrin92 1y ago
>seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain
I mean, that's because that's literally what they need to believe. A majority of people has been brought up on an incredibly moralized account of human behavior, and if it turns out you can just pour some GLP-1 drugs into the drinking water and basically fix a whole bunch of issues it will become obvious that a therapeutic framing is the appropriate way to look at these things.
For people who live in a world of vices and sinners who have to swear off the devil, this throws a pretty big wrench into the whole story, it's much more than just a drug.
- losvedir 1y agoI think it's a similar thing to those who are morally invested in human overpopulation and not consuming resources for climate change reasons and such. The techno-optimist GLP analogs like solving these things with clean energy and other modern marvels throws a wrench into that story.
- astrange 1y agoI personally believe the theory that obesity in the US is caused by other things in the water supply[0], so adding GLP-1 inhibitors would cancel them out. [0] obesity appears to be caused by moving downstream/to lower altitudes, and has increased in farm and lab animals at the same rates as humans.