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tacocat  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No Longer Wanting to Die

    Take a child for instance, age 2. Depression isn't there.

Neither is any emotional complexity or higher mode of thought.

    There is though, laughter,

And violent, histrionic tantrums.

    Junk, artificials, preservatives. Were our bodies designed for it? No.

Our bodies weren't designed for anything. Cooked food, antibiotics, organ transplants, blood transfusions, survival in Northern Europe. But we make do anyway. Bodies are really a pretty stupid system. Insert fat, sugar and protein, create energy, don't die. So you can put things like MSG into them and your liver and kidneys just toss them out. Sometimes there are bad things you could put in there but we have people to test those. We call them scientists. That's why we don't have the epidemic levels of suicidal depression that you would expect if you were right about anything here in the slightest.

You have a lot of anecdotes and appeals to emotion, I'll give you that, but not so much in the way of useful information.





user-inactivated  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for sharing

tacocat  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wish I could say the same to you