[thomassmith65]

  I think that if we want to grow up, we need to grow beyond fairness and unfairness.

Fair or unfair... it's nice to live in a region where one can leave their house without stepping over homeless people, without having one's car stolen or vandalized, without one worrying about being mugged, and where one's surroundings are vibrant and picturesque. That is not life in a country with high wealth inequality.

[shreyansh_k]

I'm going to tell you a story. A story, I'm afraid, that might leave you even more confused. But, I hope it serve us well.

Sometime in the 1960s (don't quote me on the year), there was plenty of scientific research coming out that cholesterol is bad for your heart's health. Doctors were recommending to completely avoid cholesterol. Governments were in the process of banning it.

It got so bad that for decades people were avoiding food with cholesterol like plague. Companies were actively seeking to substitute it with other things or artificially remove it from their products.

Then, I think in the 2000s (again, don't quote), to everyone's surprise, research started coming out that there seem to be even stronger links of those heart disease with trans fat.

So much so that trans fat actually got banned across countries in the world by many governments by 2010s. Even higher that cholesterol.

Anyway, upon reviewing the old research about cholesterol, researchers learnt that food with high trans fats also tends to be high in cholesterol. I mean, it makes sense, they are both fats... And most food have a complex combination of many fats (among other things). But really, the cause was not cholesterol, it was trans fat.

So, in the cross fire between reasoning (and heart disease) and evidence (caused by trans fat), cholesterol got shot, for no good reason.