Why do we love things that are bad for us?

Question

Does this go back to something that is in the Bible by any chance?

Answer 1

no....we love things that are bad cause they feel good..........not because it is good for us..........live life..be happy.....I AM!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

The Bible probably isn't the place to turn to get a good answer about this. It will contain some trash about fallen this and sinful that.

More likely is that your brain structure has evolved to survive effectively in conditions that are different than it has to deal with now. Our ancestors didn't have supermarkets full of fatty food, drugs, or adventure sports to stimulate them.

If they did something, like eat an animal or have sex, that was good for their survival, their brain rewarded it with chemical responses. Now, you can just snort something to set off the same response. Your brain hasn't had time to evolve to figure out that it's responses are being hijacked by something that is bad for it.

Answer 3

Well that depends on what you think is "Bad." Fast food may taste "good" but is "bad" for your body. Being married to an abuser is pretty "bad" but when it first started it probablay felt "good." How about sex? If you're a nun that might be considered a "bad" thing to do. But if you're an average person, you might think that's a great thing to do.
Who interprets what is Good or Bad for us? What is your definition of "Good" and "Bad" When you actually acknowledge what YOU think is good and bad, not based just on the Bible or any one perosn's idea, then you will be more likely to go for the good and not the bad.

Answer 4

Uhm, YES,BACK to the Bible DEFINITELY.

Jesus words were of l o v e. All HE taught was to love thy neighbor as thyself.

To love is a g00d thing*. Love forgiveth a MULTITUDE of sins.
Love giveth NOT false HOPE.
Love holds NO ill-will towards his neighbor.
Love is compassionate and kind.
Love is the opposite of hated.
Do GOOD to thine enemies & this will heap coals of FIRE upon their HEADS.
No man* can fathom its undeniable existence.

love is something that has NOT a price*.
It is wide as the ocean,deep as the sea.


LOVE CAN NOT BE BOUGHT OR SOLD,SO MAKE IT BOLD,WHEN YOU FIND IT...DON'T USE IT,ABUSE IT,OR THROW IT AWAY,BECAUSE IF YOU LOSE **THAT**,YOU LOSE A SOMETHING YOU CANNOT FIND AGAIN.

Answer 5

In the movie, the devil's advocate. It is mentioned "we are created to desire the things which cause negative consequences"

Why dont we all crave vegatable and fruits?

I think it has to do with survival.

What would happen if once humanity reached a certain level of "truth revelation" that we decided to mass-nuke the planet and end our own species?

Answer 6

Its similar to the power of suggestion. It is in our minds. If someone tells us we shouldn't or can't have something, we immediately begin to obsess about the forbidden item. It could go back to the Bible.

Answer 7

Because some things that are "bad" for us physically...
Can be "hellaciously fun" mentally...

Life is not "black or white," "right or left," "up or down..."
Life is a kaleidoscopic, swirling barber pole of all colors, and all shades in between, and all directions at once, and...
Well...
I don't have to tell you that...
I'm sure you've noticed...

Answer 8

Cause we are a species who like to live on the edge. If you are talking Bible here ... how 'bout that apple? We all know right from wrong but we are tempted.

Answer 9

Because we are enigmas unto ourselves. We enjoy making mystery of ourselves.

Two:
Chameleon

"eye am ten, raised to the power: minus forty-three
seconds ago
eye am sixteen billion—Big Bang—years of sunsets since
call me Eastern Stardust Time
'fore eye was a cell, a clam, a crayfish
'fore eye was a frog, a turtle duck billed Dodo bird a
Platypus,
a dragon fly, a pollywog
'fore eye was a heron shy, a swallow full of sky, a
trilobite, a fire spark,
a meadowlark, a grain of sand, that grew into a stone,
a breath of air, & 'fore eye was a bone, eye was a
shadow:
a protozoariferacoelenterata,
plathyhelmintheaschelmenthemykindyourdermata
mollusannelidoidanthropodointegumentarychordata,
remember me, my flag it purple flowers fly:
forgetmenots my color
'fore eye was a bone, eye was a shadow,
dangling chromosomes of genus: You Know
oh swarthy Ethiopia, recall my own aunt Lucy
quand nous sommes: mille-huit cent-soixante quartorze
dawn Riot aegyptopithecus,
skull intact two million tears ago
sharper than mosquitoes "petahs"
32 teeth in Miocene Time
one prospector bone jumping Sapien
they never got it right,
but called us by another name
when no tail grew,
thirty thousand years of snow would go
dubbed 'em dignop-ragmop Rasta-Pongid-Missing Link
Big Foot, Yinee shot dice on a gene splice & Neanders
thawed
frostbite feet froze off Ice Age
stone flecks come the Peking man
then dropped like fire sticks
grew me & you & all the shades of them no one has seen
'em since
‘****** dice don't roll’
still Aunt Lucy says to say hello
Eyeball am here to testify: a Sapien,
a sole survivor, sweet Aunt Lucy's kin
come not she your aunt Lucy too
what solar system sky?
please tell me who? as what ? by how?
or whence? from where do your own ancestors fly?
whose jaws with skulls
the carbon dated bones back when?
you see, my friend
we are the spawn of saurs
no count tribes, whose thoughts grew out of grunts old
nods,
hand jive & screams--no word, odd signs,
engirdling tones the bread defined
the mantra said: yo-kee gee-ring-ho yo-mee-nam
our silence sings The Dream Time
to Ghaghaju-griot hearing aids
Sangria gun-gun great uncle juju Bushman kindled fire,

gathered roots his horse who rides me still
up a mountain-down the Belladonna shade
a million five ago & ashes
when the no name Mhamha's
announced us kin to cousin Taung's child
petrified like magma swirls
the garnet gleans a snowball stone
where once eye lay chameleon raw,
preserved in time, a lump of coal,
my jelly shook in oyster shells,
the progeny of apple cores--because:
'fore eye was a cell, a clam, a crayfish,
'fore eye was a frog,
a turtle, duck billed Dodo bird, a Platypus,
a dragon fly, a pollywog,
a trilobite, a heron shy, a meadowlark,
cyanogenic drop of rain, a fire spark,
'fore eye was a grain of sand that grew into a stone,
a breath of air 'fore eye was a bone,
eye was a shadow:
a protozoariferacoelenterata,
plathyhelmintheaschementheyourkindmydermata,
mollusannelidoidanthropodaintegumentarychordata
remember me, my flag, it purple flowers fly:
forgetmenots my color, 'fore eye was a bone eye was a
shadow."
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Answer 10

I would say Human Nature.

Answer 11

We hope that one day the world will cave and finally realize it's good for us.