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> "Why not just eat food?" Why not just do [less convenient thing] instead of [more convenient thing]? Well, convenience, of course. > "I've never really unde

> "Why not just eat food?" Why not just do [less convenient thing] instead of [more convenient thing]? Well, convenience, of course. > "I've never really understood" You only need to understand that different people can have different priorities and desires. > "the obsession ... glop ... stuck on ... why not just" All you're doing here is using negative framing to pretend that your own priorities are more real than someone else's.

ErroneousBosh 2mo ago
> You only need to understand that different people can have different priorities and desires. Evolutionarily, food is our absolute number one priority. It's hardcoded into the thought processes of every animal. Can you describe anything that is more important than food?
- BugsJustFindMe 2mo ago
  The "glop", as you put it, is also food. It has the same nutritive components and addresses the same hunger signals and fuels the body's same energy-production requirements. You just don't like it. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia
  - ErroneousBosh 2mo ago
    It's expensive, it's not pleasant to eat, and it's not good for you. Why are you wasting time with it?
    - BugsJustFindMe 2mo ago
      > "It's expensive" You don't like it. > "it's not pleasant to eat" You don't like it. > "and it's not good for you." You don't like it. > "wasting time" You don't like it. Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa None of your complaints make it not food. They just mean you don't know how to differentiate between your personal subjective preferences and correctness and it makes you sound snooty.
      - dofm 2mo ago
        > Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa That is a bit of a reach! Anyone who doesn't like your weird sci-fi food on principle possibly has an eating disorder?
    - Apocryphon 2mo ago
      Presumably those who eat it find the form factor the opposite of wasting time, given how quick it is to consume it.

ErroneousBosh 2mo ago

> You only need to understand that different people can have different priorities and desires. Evolutionarily, food is our absolute number one priority. It's hardcoded into the thought processes of every animal. Can you describe anything that is more important than food?

BugsJustFindMe 2mo ago
The "glop", as you put it, is also food. It has the same nutritive components and addresses the same hunger signals and fuels the body's same energy-production requirements. You just don't like it. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia
- ErroneousBosh 2mo ago
  It's expensive, it's not pleasant to eat, and it's not good for you. Why are you wasting time with it?
  - BugsJustFindMe 2mo ago
    > "It's expensive" You don't like it. > "it's not pleasant to eat" You don't like it. > "and it's not good for you." You don't like it. > "wasting time" You don't like it. Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa None of your complaints make it not food. They just mean you don't know how to differentiate between your personal subjective preferences and correctness and it makes you sound snooty.
    - dofm 2mo ago
      > Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa That is a bit of a reach! Anyone who doesn't like your weird sci-fi food on principle possibly has an eating disorder?
  - Apocryphon 2mo ago
    Presumably those who eat it find the form factor the opposite of wasting time, given how quick it is to consume it.