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by wktmeow 74 days ago
Why, when you could just not use X though?
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The only thing stopping me from eating shit is the smell, taste, texture, and possibly of disease. But if all those where removed I'd be the first to chow down.
This is a clear example of purity spiral groupthink.
Why would you stop using X if it has valuable content at times?
So that it stops existing.

It has valuable content for you occasionally.

Your behavioral profile is valuable content for it constantly.

Unfair trade.

this is like telling smoker not to buy smokes? :)
Yeah, if you could get cigarettes without the tar and nicotine I might even take it up.
Tangential, but the nicotine is not as bad as people think.