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Re:Diamonds Suck (2006) by stouset on Sunday November 13, 2016 @06:36PM (#12946454)
And not eating it is for non-taste/texture/allergy reasons is just as absurd as wanting to have a "real" diamond.

It's all nonsense. None of it makes sense.

Re:Diamonds Suck (2006) by alphazero_hn on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:19AM (#12949912)
OT aside: I sometimes like to play automatic reading (ala dada) with google. So at this moment a google search for "It's all nonsense. None of it makes sense." brings up your comment at the top of the page and a few items below this link [1] which has a section entitled "Making sense of nonsense. Conant and Diamond read Wittgenstein's Tractacus".

Now I wonder if that Diamond is a chance event ("nonsense") or correlation artifact from the search algorithm ("sense").

[1]: http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/conant/costello...

Re:Diamonds Suck (2006) by khedoros1 on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:27AM (#12948780)
Culture just tends to be arbitrary, in the details. If you don't care about potential social consequences, then feel free to ignore the parts that you find absurd.
Re:Diamonds Suck (2006) by chris_7 on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:19AM (#12950288)
Does horse meat not raise the risk of digestive system cancer, as other red meats do? (and notably unlike fish and vegetables)