That's a good way of describing it. I expect that a hundred years from now, this thread will be viewed as people arguing over questions that don't even make sen

That's a good way of describing it. I expect that a hundred years from now, this thread will be viewed as people arguing over questions that don't even make sense. This brings to mind Paul Graham's article "What you can't say", but that article focuses on what people can't say due to moral/cultural pressures and taboos. In this case (and many others), it's what people can't say because the underlying framework is missing. Maybe in 100 years, people will wonder why we were even debating whether people should restrict salt or not, because the question won't even make sense as something to ask. Kind of like serious medieval debates over Filioque now seem pointless to most people. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html