[ExI] morality

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri May 19 15:49:48 UTC 2023


There is nothing wrong with a good hamburger, unless you eat one every
day.  French fries are another story.  bill w

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:47 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] morality
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> On Thu, 18 May 2023, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
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> >>... We humans have no one to blame.  There was no perpetrator.  We did
> this to ourselves.
> >
>
> >...Another question related to this question from a non american. How
> much do you learn in the school system about healthy eating, sports, taking
> care of your body etc.?
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> Plenty.  Health classes are required.  The principles are universally
> ignored by the young of course, but the classes are required.  We know what
> we are supposed to do.  But food evolves over time.  It gets better and
> better, whereas we don't get much better at resisting.
>
> >...I have heard that in the US, unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy
> food and that is why many low income families have to rely on that to get
> by, and that is very sad (if true)...
>
> It depends on how you classify "unhealthy food."  Do you have a universal
> definition of it, or an objective measure?  Neither does anyone else.
> Consider a classic American low cost meal: hamburgers.  Does that count as
> healthy or unhealthy?  Why?
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> >...But in schools, is there a movement towards teaching proactive health
> practises?
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
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> Schools have always had that kind of training, but Americans (and
> everywhere else) is up against that chart showing what foods are the lowest
> cost per calorie.  Flour is big number 1, but we don't eat flour directly.
> Bread is next, but usually that goes with butter, which drops it down below
> the new second place: raw sugar.
>
> Daniel, you recall your school days, as do we.  We were young and
> indestructible.  Our bodies would take whatever we tossed down our gullets,
> and somehow turned it into copious energy, never any actual bad health
> consequences.  Nothing has changed.  Young people still pass their health
> science finals and still ignore every principle they learned.
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> Oh how I miss being young and indestructible.
>
> spike
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