• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Caffeine is a drug.

    It massively distorts one’s biological-process, trashing one’s ability to get rest.

    Overdosing on it kills people.

    It is added to colas to make them addictive ( their makers’ pretense that caffeine is a “flavor enhancer” is false: all it adds is bitterness, which can be added by Bitrex™, or bitter-gourd extract, or something, more cheaply: addiction’s the goal, & that’s what they’re manufacturing ).

    People destroying their own health with chemicals … IF they’re being correctly warned of the consequences of consuming those chemicals, fine: that’s their choice.

    However, the refusal to coerce caffeine-pushers into identifying just how much they’re including, & just what that does to people’s health, puts responsibility on “government”, too.

    For-profit industry inherently-is narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopathic, aka DarkTriad, so “blaming” them for being machiavellian is pointless.

    Cynical, but true.

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