Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by oldmanjay on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:03AM (#12815895)

Your dismissal is 100% emotional. Do you have any reasons that I should find it compelling or are you relying entirely on emotional resonance to make your anti-soylent case?

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by bbctol on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:12PM (#12817547)

What? The dismissal was that the product previously existed. What's emotional about that?

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by oldmanjay on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:25PM (#12818429)

What's not emotional about requiring products you have no hand in to meet your standards of innovation?

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by bbctol on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:25PM (#12819179)

What... what is emotional about that? Saying a product is trying to fill a need which has already been filled is the least emotional reason I can think of to not purchase something.

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by oldmanjay on Friday October 28, 2016 @07:04PM (#12821523)

Fair enough

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by rl12345 on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:39PM (#12817861)

How about the company itself taking their product out of the market because it's making people sick?

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by oldmanjay on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:30PM (#12818490)

That wasn't the reason given for the dismissal. I'm not arguing anything in particular about soylent, and in fact I don't care about it at all. I'm just pointing out that personal standards are a boring emotional basis for deciding what is innovative.

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