Miracle fruit paternalism  From one of my friends at the miracle
fruit party:  So, my girlfriend was spreading the miracle fruit
story around her faculty office (she’s a physics teacher). When
she told her department head about it, her immediate reaction
was “that sounds like something the government should regulate.”
When asked why the government should regulate it, the department
head (I’m not making this up) came up with the following
hypothetical: “What if you ate this fruit, and then you drank
sour milk, but didn’t know it was sour? You might drink the
whole carton without knowing you’re drinking sour milk.”  There
are people like this, and they are why the nanny state keeps
growing.     1. Aarti says:      hey Jake,      This is getting
as good as the nutmeg.      – Aarti    2. Juls says:      Nutmeg
is awesome.    3. Jacob Grier says:      You need to lay off,
dude. Even the spice aisle stocker is starting to get concerned
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