After that process has happened, they’re the same.
Yes, once you use a process that will cause people to like ANYTHING, including bat urine, it will cause them to like alcohol.
If you look closely, that statement has no information content, and it’s equivalent to yours.
“Anything” is too broad. If you made drinking bat urine sufficiently high-status, or gave it some reward other than taste, then yes; otherwise, no.
EDIT: Taste in this case = “pleasure from first taste”
Good thing alcohol doesn’t have other rewards (like pleasant mental states) or impacts or your status.
Otherwise, the situations might be parallel!
You are bringing your own assumptions into it, as well, like that “anything” isn’t cyanide.
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After that process has happened, they’re the same.
Yes, once you use a process that will cause people to like ANYTHING, including bat urine, it will cause them to like alcohol.
If you look closely, that statement has no information content, and it’s equivalent to yours.
“Anything” is too broad. If you made drinking bat urine sufficiently high-status, or gave it some reward other than taste, then yes; otherwise, no.
EDIT: Taste in this case = “pleasure from first taste”
Good thing alcohol doesn’t have other rewards (like pleasant mental states) or impacts or your status.
Otherwise, the situations might be parallel!
You are bringing your own assumptions into it, as well, like that “anything” isn’t cyanide.