nootanond

I see a story about man who deliberately made a series of selfish high risk decisions and continued to do so with no regard for his future or his role in society.

I've done the same, to an extent - but if I ended up homeless at any point I would not have expected society to pay for my continued foolishness.

There's no doubt that welfare in some form is ideal for a modern society, but people should recognize that willingness to work is tied to desire for survival/comfort and willingness to work for most people decreases as the welfare floor increases.

Forcing someone to work for those who do not contribute to society is theft. There is no reason to believe that the average person will commit to pursuits beneficial for the collective if his needs are guaranteed to be met regardless of his willingness or ability to participate.

>It indeed existed and we had the opportunity to evolve with its ambient presence.

It may exist in a number of plants all over the world but that doesn't mean that people were harvesting and using it outside of certain isolated cultures until fairly recently, compared to evolutionary timescales.

If anything I'd expect significant genetic variation representing adaptations only present in some groups.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20859791/

In the short term over the duration of effect. I don't think I've ever seen a reliable study that demonstrated any reliable evidence of long term harm from coffee with any certainty.

I feel like there is no platform on which a level discussion of this subject is allowed. And the tragedy is that well meaning official and unofficial censorship (i.e. mods, social shaming) effectively shut down the concerns of 40-60% of the population, and as evidenced by this article in particular, the views on race that currently fall within the window of acceptable discourse are creating unsustainable societies across the western world.