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Piotr Pachota's avatar

In Poland, where I live, most people were taught by parents and priests that wasting food is a sin. Mothers and grandmother's typically insist that children eat all food on their plate. On the other hand, when hosting guests it is important to provide more food than they could possibly eat. All of this usually leads to overeating, wasting food or both.

What I figured out some time ago is that given a choice between wasting food and overeating, both are consodered morally bad, but by overeating I am hurting myself, while wasting food doesn't hurt anyone.

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I also hate it when people use numbers to promote a simple solution to a complexe problem.

For exemple, this slightly exagerated Health Prime Minister point of view: There is 9 772 family doctors in our province of 8 604 500 people. So if every physician take 881 patients under their care, we would solve every single problem in Health Care.

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