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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9399447" data-attributes="member: 11760">My problematic fave is orange Hostess cupcakes, which I am able to love while knowing they are garbage filled with toxic waste. I am not personally diminished by anyone pointing out that they are garbage filled with toxic waste, partly because my identity is not bound up in being a Hostess cupcake eater and partly because the toxic waste has bored holes through my brain already.It would be an issue, I think, if I wanted to insist that they were somehow health food that would make me live forever and that Mr. Hostess and Mr. Orange Cupcake were paragons of virtue, all of whose works were immaculate and incorruptible. But they weren't. Mr. Orange Cupcake liked to bully puppies, which he left copious public records of and was quite proud of doing.I would prefer if Mr. Orange Cupcake had been a better guy, but he's dead -- toxic waste bored holes through his brain -- and so we are left with his works, such as they are, which will probably outlast the collapse of human civilization in the next few years.Enjoy your cupcakes or don't. But don't get mad that someone points out that they're filled with toxic waste. You didn't put it there and you're not hurting anyone but your own brain cells by eating them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9399447, member: 11760"] My problematic fave is orange Hostess cupcakes, which I am able to love while knowing they are garbage filled with toxic waste. I am not personally diminished by anyone pointing out that they are garbage filled with toxic waste, partly because my identity is not bound up in being a Hostess cupcake eater and partly because the toxic waste has bored holes through my brain already. It would be an issue, I think, if I wanted to insist that they were somehow health food that would make me live forever and that Mr. Hostess and Mr. Orange Cupcake were paragons of virtue, all of whose works were immaculate and incorruptible. But they weren't. Mr. Orange Cupcake liked to bully puppies, which he left copious public records of and was quite proud of doing. I would prefer if Mr. Orange Cupcake had been a better guy, but he's dead -- toxic waste bored holes through his brain -- and so we are left with his works, such as they are, which will probably outlast the collapse of human civilization in the next few years. Enjoy your cupcakes or don't. But don't get mad that someone points out that they're filled with toxic waste. You didn't put it there and you're not hurting anyone but your own brain cells by eating them. [/QUOTE]

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