The Beef-eater

"What do you think of beef and caste Hindus?" she asks.

"Caste Hindus are conditioned into hating beef so that intermingling with beef-eating castes becomes difficult. For caste society to reform, there should be no concept of purity or impurity in society over food. I accept that caste Hindus of today are already conditioned and hard-wired to not eat beef. I don't care if they eat or don't eat, but they throw around cringing faces and sounds of tsk tsk when I eat beef on the same table. It's my culture and my source of nourishment, and they have no right to disrespect it."

He then visits Vietnam where he encounters throbbing hearts of cobras, half-formed chicken fetuses, fermented baby shrimp paste, rats, frogs and more. He cringes a few times, and sticks to chicken and beef. You might be surprised to learn that the fermented baby shrimp paste was the hardest to sit thru, because he could decline to eat, but he had to breathe.

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If Heisenberg had to choose between position and momentum in the context of our evolution as people, he should choose momentum. Where one begins is an accident, and insignificant compared to how much one can evolve.