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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