Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK, but only in the sense that a car crash is a mechanical problem (there may be repairs to make). >lots of grains and refined foods i.e. rather tasty! I don't think we can escape from motives here: they select what type of diet we prefer given the choice. The market caters to that.
> i.e. rather tasty! Most people don't find refined foods tasty. In blind taste tests, people vastly prefer the old McDonalds fries back when they used actual potatoes and fried them in lard. Then the American Government said it was illegal to use lard for "health reasons" and they need to use vegetable oil instead. As it turns out, vegetable oils are considerably more pro-inflammatory than lard and, as a result, are…
However, people don't prefer substances that cause more inflammation because they cause more inflammation, rather people prefer things that they find more pleasurable. This might include not having to switch restaurants and consuming things that are cheaper.
This is not inconsistent with the idea that chronic pleasure-seeking without respite causes chronic inflammation, e.g. if we indulge gluttonous impulses by eating sufficient amounts of chips fried in lard with mountains of blueberries for pudding then we're going to acquire the same problem.
>Self-stimulating activities and inflammation are orthogonal. Mechanical problems don't always cause accidents and accidents aren't always the result of mechanical problems.
I guess I'm claiming that they aren't. That car accidents aren't usually caused by mechanical faults was my point.
>smoking pot is anti-inflammatory
On the face of it this does look like a good counter-example. I might have to do some reading! It could be that cannabis relieves mental stress by a different route and this outweighs the effects of the 'high' (is there a high?)
>PS: are you a bear or ilk?
No, I'm not a joiner but I'm sympathetic to those guys. Discovered!
Let me add that I don't think that the inflammation problem is unsolvable. I'm a firm believer that everything good can ultimately be felt to be good, to the point where no discipline is required to purse it.