What about stuff like wheat, which is claimed to be both painkiller and gut irritant? It feels better than the alternative, but appears to be actually doing damage / increasing inflammation.
There’s also stuff like mate selection- who I find attractive may not be the best person for the relationship goals I espouse. (For example, liking other men in part based on their projected fertility is problematic both because it won’t lead to kids and because it’s not making best use of that it won’t lead to kids.)
Nobody says that human contact is bad, even though many people like it.
Doctors used to say (about a hundred years ago) that human contact with infants was bad, because of the increased risk of infectious disease. Mothers could not resist touching their babies, and so just felt guilty about doing it- but caretakers in orphanages were perfectly willing to minimize contact. Turns out that not touching infants causes a lot of psychological problems! Oops. (Also, mothers make antibodies for pathogens they pick up by kissing / playing with their babies which then get transmitted to the baby through breast milk, so frequent contact can decrease risk.)
What about stuff like wheat, which is claimed to be both painkiller and gut irritant? It feels better than the alternative, but appears to be actually doing damage / increasing inflammation.
There’s also stuff like mate selection- who I find attractive may not be the best person for the relationship goals I espouse. (For example, liking other men in part based on their projected fertility is problematic both because it won’t lead to kids and because it’s not making best use of that it won’t lead to kids.)
Doctors used to say (about a hundred years ago) that human contact with infants was bad, because of the increased risk of infectious disease. Mothers could not resist touching their babies, and so just felt guilty about doing it- but caretakers in orphanages were perfectly willing to minimize contact. Turns out that not touching infants causes a lot of psychological problems! Oops. (Also, mothers make antibodies for pathogens they pick up by kissing / playing with their babies which then get transmitted to the baby through breast milk, so frequent contact can decrease risk.)