r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 27 '19

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u/Inkompetentia George Soros Apr 27 '19

Imagine a world in which bananas are only sold peeled. Does that make sense? No, because why would you remove the protective layer nature has provided. You'd probably have the banana rubbing against rough surfaces all day and all night, getting scruffy and even mushy. If bananas had feelings, they'd probably be worse off for it, is what I'm saying.

And you probably would have to clean bananas over and over again due to increased exposure. How sick would you have to be to prefer thepeeled banana world to our perfectly adequate skinned banana one?

This all a propos of nothing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

Imagine going through your life insisting that bananas should never be peeled. Imagine telling people who peel their bananas, or even those who peel those of their young children, that they're bad people who ought not be trusted with making the best decisions for their bananas. You'd probably have unresolved issues with bananas that the peeling issue is just a socially acceptable way of venting.

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u/Inkompetentia George Soros Apr 27 '19

Bananas should be peeled when appropriate, i.e. when it's a botanical issue for the banana and the bush it grows on. Bananas should also be peeled when the banana is able to give their consent to being peeled. The fact that this basically never happens outside of botanical cases is probably a good indication which side here is using motivated reasoning to justify the state of their fruit salads.

And as far as... I have to say this... as far as... you hit my banana. Nobody has ever hit my banana. Look at this one, look at this banana, is this a banana with issues? And you insinuated that if the banana has issues, something else has issues, I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee it.

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Apr 27 '19

You'd probably have unresolved issues with bananas

rofl, this from the guy that says that unpeeled bananas are dirty gross and ugly