ColonicAcid wrote:Hahaha yeah right bruh.
Don't say things you don't understand. We all think we're free thinking beings but underneath it all it's circuits that are millions of years old.
Let me tell you a little experiment that shows just how much control you really have. There's an experiment involving hooking your brain up so it can show brain activity and asking people to raise whichever hands they want.
You can tell exactly what hand they'll raise seconds before they raise it by looking at the areas of activity. Your brain has made the decision fucking centuries before but you're under the illusion you chose it.
We. Are. Not. Special.
Why do you think obesity is a big problem? Our brains are wired to crave high sugar foods. They specifically taste good to make us want more. When we were hunter gatherers this was great, we rarely ever got food that high in sugars so you gotta take advantage when it happens. Now though? They're everywhere. But our brains haven't adapted yet, so we're still in hunter gatherer mode.
1. You're coming off as if you're mad and as though you just want to bully people into agreeing. This does not help your argument and makes you look like you're mildly insane or maybe just a bit unhinged
2. I suppose serial killers should not be punished for a brain that is evolved for killing the other tribe either then..No? Somehow restraining our natural violent impulses is considered normal but restraining our impulse to do drugs and eat fat foods is different
3. Obesity is a problem because these people refuse to adapt their lifestyle to modern amenities. This is a personal failing, not a biological one. A biological one would be if they were practically incapable of burning fat when exercising or were incapable of eating healthy foods. It just so happens that a lot of people DID adapt to this and they did so with the same kind of brains as the fat people. You know what happens when a fat person decides to stop being fat? They actually start losing weight because they consciously make their actions fit their desires. It may not be fast, it may not be easy, but they can all do it if they want it bad enough. You are right that there are some parts of the brain that haven't adapted yet, but they're not the part of the brain that is in control
Unless you let it, and then you're eating twinkies for breakfast because high calorie sweet foods taste good and hitting your wife because your instinct at being displeased or annoyed by anything is to apply violence
But if you just decide you don't want that part to be in control, you tell it to fuck off and have a lettuce/tomato sandwich instead
We are not just animals as you're suggesting. We are people, and we can change both ourselves and the world around us. But only if we want to, if we don't care then the animal-level parts of the brain will just handle it.
And guess what? You're right we're not special. Some monkeys have been shown to do the same, with some getting tested and having slightly below human intellect. But this doesn't give people an excuse to just let themselves go and binge on fat and do drugs because thats what the animal bit wants
But if we take both humans and monkeys together? Yeah, that group is pretty special
Also I agree with Scree on whether drug testing should be done. If it doesn't actually make a profit for the state it's probably not worth investing into. And when considering that drug tests are both amazingly easy to bypass as mentioned above(Have someone else piss in a bottle for you), and often give false positives(Sesame seeds in sufficient quantity test the same as cocaine for many tests, many other normal foodstuffs include things that may test positive for some drugs you may not even have heard of if you've eaten them in sufficient amounts)
You're going to need a better test before you can make that one work out in any sort of reasonable manner
