[MarcusVorenus]

I think it's fascinating how hostile some people can get towards Soylent. It's like they think the mere existence of it is an attack to the core of their identity. I wonder if it's just insecurity triggered by people liking something that they don't like or some other type of psychological defense mechanism.

[iyn]

Very interesting indeed. I guess 2 factors are:

* some people don't like change in general, some are afraid of it. This also brings the same question: why? I have no idea, but there are plenty of guesses, e.g: https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-reasons-people-resist-chang.html

* some kind of a "bad experience" with Soylent. It can be just an article about "busy people drinking Soylent" which creates negative internal representation of a Soylent as a drink for the crazy, out of this world busy people

[drewrv]

Back when I was a vegetarian I got a lot of the same thing. People would get upset about what I would or wouldn't put into my own body.

[timr]

While you're right that convincing people that they're being stupid is generally a waste of time, it's no more or less a waste of time than posting a comment on the internet wondering why other people post comments on the internet.

[cryoshon]

For me, it's hostility toward the race to the bottom and accompanying dehumanization that Soylent is nodding to.

I really don't understand people who think positively about Soylent. It's bland nutrient paste, similar to the kind fed to coma patients. How exciting and DISRUPTIVE!!!

[Kalium]

I used Soylent to lose weight. It helped me gain very precise control over caloric intake.

You know what? I didn't care that it was a bland nutrient slurry. I cared about the "dehumanizing" control it gave me. I cared about the options it brought to my life. Discovering significant extra time in my day by not cooking 8x a week was a nice bonus.

What I'm really seeing in your comments is that you're struggling to understand how someone could think so utterly differently from you.