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I'm tired of the inequality (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Cyanide occurs naturally. Water can be made in a lab by mixing Hydrogen and Oxygen and applying heat.

Is Cyanide good for you when occurring naturally and water bad for you when artificially synthesized?

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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    no. But it is also not the case that nature intended for us to consume artificially synthesized anything

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Natural is such a stupid argument. Is it natural for us to use a smartphone? Sit in a car and drive around? Work 8h a day instead of being with your peer group? Breed a fast growing special kind of animal, feed it with chemical ingredients and plants that don't grow here only to eat them? Eat processed sugar? I think you get where I am going. Stop using this bullshit argument and take some supplements, your body will thank you.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I'm not saying that supplements are bad. What I am saying is that getting those things from their original source is not bad either. And no argument will get me to see it as such. You can have your supplements, it doesn't affect me. But I will not feel guilty of doing what nature always intended me to do: i.e. eat stuff

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    nature intended

    Nature doesn't intend anything, it simply is. We are, in the grand scheme of things, not separate from nature, and in this sense everything we do is natural. If you're using "natural" to distinguish things from the results of human civilization, then eating animal products stemming from animal agriculture is just as "unnatural" as supplements, as both are products of civilization.

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