gbaji wrote:
I don't know if that's a great analogy though. Both were still "soda", and no one seriously argued differently. The discussion was more an academic question of relative health effects of different sweeteners.
It's not an analogy at all. I was talking about the very human tendency toward complacency, and our collective assumption that an alternative to something harmful must be relatively harmless. In the short term, maybe it is. In the long term, maybe it isn't.