...are they drinking a 2 liter of soda apiece? Man, those documentaries talking about the kind of stuff the human stomach can break down weren't joking.
'Tis true. In our country we have a saying that could be roughly translated as "too much of anything can do harm", and I think that's true. Hell, you can die from drinking too much water at once! (And I think the limit isn't even that high, it's like 4 litres.)
And if we look at it from the scientific point of view, everything that is a poison is a cure in smaller doses, and everything that is a cure is a poison in bigger doses. (I guess there are exceptions like methanol or some hallucinogens, but in general it's like that, if my chemistry knowledge is correct. Why else would they harvest snake venom?)
So yes, abusing drugs is just as bad as abusing cholesterol and sugar, and just as deadly, only with overeating it's probably slower and more painful in the process.
Oh, no, 4 litres per day is completely fine, but I mean at once. Like, 4 litres in an hour. That can apparently kill you.
Edit: an article on the web says that a person died when she drank 6 litres in 3 hours, so yeah. Still, the point of this is not to drink more than your stomach can hold faster than you can digest, I guess.
I think it's because the water overflows your stomach and rises into your esophagus and then trickles into your lungs, bringing with it a bit of stomach acid and displacing air.
So essentially you're choking yourself to death.
Yeah but the one literally messes you up so much more..
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I get your point, but it's like if 2 murderers were being prosecuted, one killed 2 people and the other 3. They both murdered and that's the point, one might have murdered more than the other, but at the end of the day they still murdered
Yes he did and I don't think it's a bad comparison. The difference is whether you kill someone or kill yourself out of irresponsibility and bad choices.
Have chill, I didn't compare it LEGITEMATELY to murder, I used it as a metaphor almost.
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I don't think murder is a good comparison at all, murder is a crime that intentionally takes away a life. Overeating doesn't always result in death, plenty of overweight people live ablong time.
I think the "substance abuse" comparison in the image is better. For a lot of people food is often an emotional crutch, a compulsion, or the result of factors beyond control (low income, high produce prices, cheap junk food). Just like a drug addict, a person dependant on food can be helped by medical attention and intervention (counseling, nutritionists, personal trainers, weight surgery/medication). Murder is a final, unchangeable, criminal act. Being fat is a health issue, albeit one that is nobody's business but the overweigh lt person's and their doctors'. (Replying to ewqua, btw)
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I used it as saying it's a bad thing, as is overeating. Doing more of a bad thing or doing less of a bad thing is still doing a bad thing.
If you want to call it a "metaphor" you're still wrong. You used the word "like" so that would make it a simile. Anyway, it's very easy falling back and saying don't take it literally.... I didn't, it's just a horrible comparison, even the substance abuse one.
It's very easy falling back into overeating as well. You get cravings that are I think similar to symptoms of withdrawal. I've never done drugs, so I can't really give you a first hand experience, but I think a big part of addiction is psychological. You can get addicted to virtually anything. Yes, some drugs have chemicals in them that make you addicted to them, but hell, so does coffee, and I don't see anyone banning that.
Besides, we've already called truce, so there's no need to dwell on it.
The thing about truce is everyone has to agree on it. Argueing on the basis of what you "think" is not gonna cut it, you are baisically implying that you are not sure of the very things you say... Weird
I love how on this thread it's so serious then it's people yelling about shots then it goes straight back to serious again. Like no fading in or anything.
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· 9 years ago
Vlekkie's a bummer everyone ignore him, round if Jager on me!!
No vlekkie, you grow up. We've all told each other our points of view, and then agreed that they're all different and that there's no point arguing about it, only you keep picking into it.
Also, replying to your comment that replied to my previous one, saying that "I think" indicates not knowing about the topic is like the most irrelevant argument I've ever heard. I had mentioned that I've never done drugs, and so I don't have any first hand experience, but the thing is, the more intelligent a person gets, the less sure they are about everything they think or they were taught, because they are able to see multiple points of view. Says something about a lot of people, doesn't it?
Anyway, a round of Honey Jack on me!
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Honey jack? Never heard of it.... put it in my mouth
You are one of the new asshole users you know, trying to change it all. Piece of shit. Ewqua, that's still your opinion, still doesn't matter.
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I'd say you hurt people's feelings but...you're a faceless commenter on a website that routinely shows pictures of dickbutt and Spongebob and you didn't, so SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS!
@vlekkie change is good, resisting change and being all grumpy like "ya kids get off my lawn" is in my opinion not the best approach to a problem. And yes, all of it is my opinion. Opinions are a good thing as well. They can change by seeing someone else's point of view, and they all matter just the same, because of free speech and equality. Saying my opinion doesn't matter is quite hypocritical and not nice at all. But well, you do have the right to say it, just as much we have the right to tell you to stfu.
its totally true, anything can be a potentially addictive dependency, but this also goes for sex, coffee, shopping, lying....the list is long. The real point is how we're gonna deal with a culture that denies funding to help people with these addictions? both of these pictures highlight people who are harming themselves and both deserve help, just because one is food doesn't mean it's not a drug and problem for people.
And if we look at it from the scientific point of view, everything that is a poison is a cure in smaller doses, and everything that is a cure is a poison in bigger doses. (I guess there are exceptions like methanol or some hallucinogens, but in general it's like that, if my chemistry knowledge is correct. Why else would they harvest snake venom?)
So yes, abusing drugs is just as bad as abusing cholesterol and sugar, and just as deadly, only with overeating it's probably slower and more painful in the process.
Edit: an article on the web says that a person died when she drank 6 litres in 3 hours, so yeah. Still, the point of this is not to drink more than your stomach can hold faster than you can digest, I guess.
So essentially you're choking yourself to death.
I think the "substance abuse" comparison in the image is better. For a lot of people food is often an emotional crutch, a compulsion, or the result of factors beyond control (low income, high produce prices, cheap junk food). Just like a drug addict, a person dependant on food can be helped by medical attention and intervention (counseling, nutritionists, personal trainers, weight surgery/medication). Murder is a final, unchangeable, criminal act. Being fat is a health issue, albeit one that is nobody's business but the overweigh lt person's and their doctors'. (Replying to ewqua, btw)
Besides, we've already called truce, so there's no need to dwell on it.
Also, replying to your comment that replied to my previous one, saying that "I think" indicates not knowing about the topic is like the most irrelevant argument I've ever heard. I had mentioned that I've never done drugs, and so I don't have any first hand experience, but the thing is, the more intelligent a person gets, the less sure they are about everything they think or they were taught, because they are able to see multiple points of view. Says something about a lot of people, doesn't it?
Anyway, a round of Honey Jack on me!