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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by mbrock on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:47AM (#12814108)
That's a problem of empathy. You can't understand how other people would have this specific feeling or practice. Obviously though many people do have it.

There seems to be something very unsettling to people like you about the idea of "meal replacement". To me it appears to be a kind of cultural conservatism, like it's an attack on "family values".

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by ng12 on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:06PM (#12820130)
It's not about empathy. The original poster was asking why people don't understand Soylent, and my answer is that it's solving a problem that they never even considered could be a problem.
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