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butliketoday at 5:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why is cocaine in food bad but refined sugar is fine?


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autoexectoday at 5:45 PM

We've decided sugar is less harmful. It's also more useful in food than cocaine which would only be there to turn people into addicts. I'm inclined to think that if companies went around adding cocaine to food to make it more addictive the way they do with sugar society would be much worse, so it seems reasonable enough. If there's data somewhere that would suggest cocaine would be less harmful than sugar though I'd be open to taking a look at it and changing my mind.

BugsJustFindMetoday at 5:45 PM

Ignoring societal conversations about the relative merits of sugar vs cocaine, you appear to have skipped/missed/ignored/misunderstood some very important words in my comment, and it has caused you to believe that I said something I did not say.

I did not say "putting cocaine in food" is bad.

I said "putting cocaine in your food without telling you" is bad.