“Cruel” might be a bit of a stretch. I could agree that your “No” replies are passive aggressive, which is frowned upon, but I don’t think that being passive aggressive is an unreasonable strategy.
Extensionally, “chemicals” is food coloring that doesn’t come straight out of a whole food, disodium edta, ammonia, peroxide, acetone, sulfur dioxide, aspartame, sodium aluminosilicate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium sorbate, methylchloroisothiazolinone....
Well, that’s a long list. Doesn’t explain very much though. How do you feel about carbonic acid, baking soda or pure alcohol? Also, what would happen if I took one item from you chemical list, and discovered that it is contained in and extractable from one of the items in your non-chemical list?
A thing doesn’t have to be a natural category for people to want to talk about it and have a legitimate interest in talking about it.
Nobody can stop you from talking about whatever you want. But it doesn’t help you reach correct conclusions.
“Cruel” might be a bit of a stretch. I could agree that your “No” replies are passive aggressive, which is frowned upon, but I don’t think that being passive aggressive is an unreasonable strategy.
Well, that’s a long list. Doesn’t explain very much though. How do you feel about carbonic acid, baking soda or pure alcohol? Also, what would happen if I took one item from you chemical list, and discovered that it is contained in and extractable from one of the items in your non-chemical list?
Nobody can stop you from talking about whatever you want. But it doesn’t help you reach correct conclusions.