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  • I think it could be dangerous given the limited scientific literacy of the general public.

    I can imagine a slew of issues where people treat it like fat/calories and assume lower is “better”, or where other people think it’s like a vitamin and high is “better”.

    I think 95% of people wouldn’t look, but that last 5% would be a mix of people that use it to their benefit as you suggest and people that misuse it as I cynically assume.








  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzMeow
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    4 months ago

    But to ask “would people actually care for, shelter, and feed an animal they didn’t know? Like just bond with a creature for what? Emotional connection, companionship, and kinship to another living thing? I love animals, tho” is just a weird take. Like, you can love animals (or babies) and not want to be responsible for them in your home, but to be incredulous about why someone would want that is ridiculous.

    “Would people really let some stray live with them?”

    That’s literally the history of house cats. A million times, yes, people want to hang out with random cats.

    You don’t need to want cats or babies to see why other people would want cats or babies.








  • “Freedom” to “free market” types is the freedom to do whatever you want with no consequences regardless of the impact to others.

    “Free market” means if you get duped or swindled then “you deserved it”.

    “Free market” means if it really causes harm then “people just won’t buy it”.

    “Free market” is way more what most people think anarchy is than what anarchists are advocating for.

    Anarchy is “if I want to do cocaine and I die, that’s on me, the government shouldn’t be allowed to control what I do with my body”

    Free market is “we should be allowed to add a little bit of cocaine to this baby formula so our brand beats out the competition and no one should be allowed to tell us we can’t”