• @Hawke
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    416 hours ago

    Oranges do not naturally have that much sugar.

    • @[email protected]
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      1615 hours ago

      It’s not the sugar, but the acid that our teeth can’t handle.

      The fact that healthy foods can’t be consumed without a risk of harm is not an intelligent design.

      I mean, even apples (i.e. “Garden of Eden”) can promote the growth of plaque!

      • @[email protected]
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        5 hours ago

        Cane and Abel tells us the gods don’t like vegetable farmers, that want meat

        Meat doesn’t damage your teeth

        Incidentally the damage from sugar is fermentation - it makes carbonic acid (the stuff that makes soda fizzy) which is a weaker acid than citric

        Citrus didn’t make it to Europe quickly - it came from China

        • flicker
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          814 hours ago

          If an all-knowing creator didn’t want humans to eat fruit from a specific tree, he shouldn’t have grown that tree in the only garden he had humans in.

          • @Aermis
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            512 hours ago

            Missing the point of obedience by choice.

            • flicker
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              -15 hours ago

              Oh, right. The obedience only matters if you have to make yourself do it. It doesn’t count if it’s natural and painless and costs you nothing. Can’t believe I forgot about that?

              • @Aermis
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                12 hours ago

                It doesn’t seem you believe in much. Be at peace with your natural choices. There will always be a cost

      • @Hawke
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        13 hours ago

        Oranges don’t exist naturally, was the point I was making. Theyre a hybrid, derived at least partly from pomelo.

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          413 hours ago

          You are right, it’s just that in Spanish a “pomelo” is a grapefruit, and I was unaware of the whole rabbit hole that is the hybridwtion of the pomelo, mandarin, citrus and all that. I deleted my old comment because I was just confused.

          • @Hawke
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            212 hours ago

            No worries, I don’t know all the details and looking more deeply, it looks to be more complicated than I was remembering too.