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somebody wrote:
> Indeed, there's the epistemological issues. As a kid, many of us might have
> thought being forced, and sometimes tricked, into eating broccoli was
> torture, and hence an evil act.
I think that this is a bogus argument, basically because it's trivial to
imagine a world where all the things that taste good are the ones that are
good for you. Being forced to eat broccoli seems like evil because it *is*
evil - it's bad that healthy stuff tastes awful. Indeed, it's bad that there
even is such a thing as unhealthy food.
This is the "it's good for you to suffer" argument, which is a subset of the
"it isn't really evil after all" argument that I found clearly described.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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