For anyone who sees this and doesn’t see the invisible /s, please don’t try to get past constipation by pushing harder. Take it from someone who has made that mistake and continues to suffer the consequences. Give yourself an enema. It will be over much faster and easier.

You murder a mind, not a body, so no mind no murder. Under that abortion isn’t murder at all. Taking a brain dead person off life support is also not murder. You certainly wouldn’t say cutting down a tree is murder.

There’s the thing though. Our bodies don’t really know what’s good for them with perfect accuracy. They evolved to survive in an environment of extreme and unpredictable scarcity, so your body telling you to eat the sour gummy worms is the correct choice in that context. Historically the job of the brain was to figure out how to get a steady supply without dieing. Now we have to manage our bodies like idiot babies because if we just listened to every impulse we’d end up with a host of health problems ultimately leading to reduced fertility and access to sexual partners. I mean that has always been true really, it’s just never been more true than now.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We aren’t really our bodies, we’re a biological product made by our bodies to function as high level control systems.