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CousinDerylHickson t1_jabphnz wrote

I think taste is what drives us to do/obtain what is healthy to eat and/or partake in, with these tastes being shaped by natural selection to actually drive us towards healthy, survival benefiting behaviors. We need to poop, so I don't think it would be likely to develop taste buds that would cause us to actively avoid a necessary function

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engineeringretard t1_jabz3nd wrote

If we could, I’m sure it’d ass-taste fine.

Oooph. The Nora virus would hit different though I bet.

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CousinDerylHickson t1_jad210s wrote

But if it tasted fine, our poop would probably taste fine, and then we might be more inclined to eat it which would be unhealthy. I think that's why poop usually smells bad, so that we don't eat it and get sick or waste energy digesting non nutritious substances

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