[jordigh]

> I'm genuinely confused by people who avoid adding additional flavour to their food

It's not a flavour, it's just pain. You can experience capsaicin on any mucuous membrane of your body. Your tongue and lips just happen to usually be the most convenient ones, but you're not using your taste buds on capsaicin.

Nothing wrong with enjoying painful food. I like exciting my pain neurons too. But not everyone likes pain, while far more people enjoy flavour.

[drpyser22]

Adding spiciness is not adding pure capsaicin seasoning. Spicy peppers have flavor, but you don't taste it if all you can focus on is the pain. As tolerance to capsaicin grows, so does appreciation for the flavor underneath the heat.

[cfraenkel]

Did you not read the parent comment? Literally the next words after your pull quote was "Heat avoidance I can understand". The comment was about non-heat generating spices.... you know, the things that add flavor without heat. Or do you find "Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin" to be "painful"??? Otherwise, please do this community a favor and actually *READ* what others say before rushing in and disagreeing with people for something they didn't say.

[jjulius]

I can't help but think that there might be a more constructive way to correct someone.

[wonderwonder]

I've been noticing it around social media lately. People are so aggressive with random strangers on the internet over the most harmless of things. Someone says "Hey I like the color blue" and the next thing people are insulting their mother. Its crazy. 50% of responses on sites like twitter regardless of the topic are just people calling the poster some variation of political insult. People dedicate their entire existence to hating people like Musk. I dont get it, why intentionally be angry all the time. What happened to civil conversation.

[jjulius]

To be fair, reading your post I thought, "Was I projecting?" because I've definitely been guilty of purposely diving into a heated convo and doing what I can to keep it at that level. I even said as much in the middle of a heated HN discussion that I'm sure can be dug up, and I've abandoned commenting entirely a couple of times because I realized it in the moment.

It can, unfortunately, be an outlet for people who are dealing with some shit, and they might not realize it. Not saying that's what's up with OP, but I think it's why I've done it myself a time or two, despite usually being civil and open to a conversation.