golfrumors — 7 years ago(August 11, 2018 01:38 AM)

A simple kiss is two sets of lips pressed together. On some level of analysis you can say it is the contact of the skin cells of two people. When you use chapstick some of the skin cells from your lips probably rub off onto the surface of the chapstick and if somebody uses that chapstick the skin cells of their lips come into contact with your discarded skin cells. A kiss, even if indirectly. That got me thinking about single use plastic. You cannot refill a tube of chapstick. You toss it out the window when it is "finished". That is, when you cannot roll it up any further even though there is still usable chapstick in the tube. Single-use plastic is a bad idea. Fast food restaurants have single use plasticware. Take a few bites with a fork and toss it. You might even grab a spoon, not use it, and throw it away. Not even a single use. What if they had reusable plasticware, or even silverware? I think people would be more hesitant to use washed utensils in a fast food restaurant than in a "classy" restaurant. But even in those classy places I think using their silverware is sketchy. Given any fork there are thousands of people who have used it before you. Thousands of mouths slobbering over it and now you stick it in yours. Even if you can wash it completely the fork is still metaphysically stained. Somewhere there is a ledger with a list of every mouth that fork has been in. This ledger does not exist physically. It is like a book but not a book. You open it up and the page you are shown is exactly what you are looking for. Say a fork you used to eat lasagna at an Olive Garden one time. You see your name and above are the names of everybody who used it prior and below those who used it after. You can read about these people. Everything they have eaten. Every sore or rotten piece of food that was in their mouth. I have never seen this book but have talked to people who have. They were sickened. They now only use single-use plasticware even though they know what that does to this planet.