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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Eat pray love

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last month According to plato how does the utopia need

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to control sex and food Yeah it is ah pretty

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regulated society So there are some weird things about like

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sex and also health and just what people eat on

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do this is all supposed to be for the best

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So the idea is that sex is a pleasurable thing

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too much pleasure is a bad thing and therefore sex

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is a bad thing thiss isn't about halting reproduction This

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isn't like a rule about how many children people can

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have he's actually talking about sex between two men which

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would have been very common at the time would have

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been known as peta rosti Other rules are about what

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people should eat what they shouldn't eat Some of them

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actually might sound pretty familiar nowadays he's opposed to people

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eating too much sugar too many sweet and indulgent foods

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that make sense to me But the rationale is not

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that you know too much sugar Well the converted it

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fat and that would be bad for your heart as

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we like it's just that he thinks people should eat

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simple foods for health and energy and that more complex

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foods are Like too much for the body to handle

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So people shouldn't eat them According to plato how does 00:01:38.869 --> [endTime] a utopia need to control sex and food

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