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Upvoted for blowing my mind.
Every time I think I've finally taken the measure of the Typical Mind Fallacy... Anyone want to announce that they dislike oxygen and rainbows? Let's get it over with!
Actual answer: for many people, including me, it's an incredibly useful mind-altering drug, that allows powerful immediate manipulation of my emotional state. In fact, I should really abuse it a lot more strategically than I do.
There's little I enjoy more than getting rid of that damn oxygen in my lungs!
(Rainbows are cool, though.)
So you're saying you can subjectively distinguish oxygen days from placebo days?
I've been looking into how to blind this, but I'm afraid the hood just makes the whole thing that much more sexy and erotic.
And thus the new fetish of double-blind bdsm was born...
Meh. I've never seen why they have this position of being axiomatically good. I mean they're nice, but are basically just some colours in the sky.
One confounding factors may be that I'm slightly colourblind (r/g) so maybe I'm not getting the full effect.