Because Cookies are Good but Milk is Cruel
Welcome to Water and Cookies. This is a blog designed to celebrate good things but also understand that we need to make sub-optimal sacrifices in order to avoid cruelty. Alas water and cookies.
The inspiration for this blog began when I was snacking on a chocolate chip cookie and washed it down without really thinking with the glass of water I had already prepared before beginning to eat my cookie. While doing so I thought of how eating a cookie without milk is almost damaging the cookie eating experience. However, it really wasn’t that bad, in fact, the cookie was just as delicious as it was before the water.
It’s trade off economics 101. What is a better experience, drinking milk and cookies, but understanding the cruelty involved in preparing the milk for your enjoyment?
Or replacing the milk with water, the source of life, and ensuring that the cruelty involved in bringing you your water is at a lower level than that of preparing milk despite the decline in overall taste experience. This is a mathematical equation that I will allow someone else to prepare, but the point is that there is a trade off and in this case I will again drink water with my cookies in the future. It’s really not that bad. Don’t get me wrong — I will drink milk and cookies again. The cruelty involved in preparing milk is high, but in the grand scheme of things there are other crueler things out there that gives me the mindset that milk is ok once in a while. Plus I am conditioned to rationalize out that milk is not as bad as other things. So I’ll continue to drink milk. But water and cookies isn’t as bad as it sounds. I just wouldn’t recommend dunking the cookie in the water before eating it. That wouldn’t do anything, unless you enjoy your cookies wet.
The inspiration for this blog began when I was snacking on a chocolate chip cookie and washed it down without really thinking with the glass of water I had already prepared before beginning to eat my cookie. While doing so I thought of how eating a cookie without milk is almost damaging the cookie eating experience. However, it really wasn’t that bad, in fact, the cookie was just as delicious as it was before the water.
It’s trade off economics 101. What is a better experience, drinking milk and cookies, but understanding the cruelty involved in preparing the milk for your enjoyment?
Or replacing the milk with water, the source of life, and ensuring that the cruelty involved in bringing you your water is at a lower level than that of preparing milk despite the decline in overall taste experience. This is a mathematical equation that I will allow someone else to prepare, but the point is that there is a trade off and in this case I will again drink water with my cookies in the future. It’s really not that bad. Don’t get me wrong — I will drink milk and cookies again. The cruelty involved in preparing milk is high, but in the grand scheme of things there are other crueler things out there that gives me the mindset that milk is ok once in a while. Plus I am conditioned to rationalize out that milk is not as bad as other things. So I’ll continue to drink milk. But water and cookies isn’t as bad as it sounds. I just wouldn’t recommend dunking the cookie in the water before eating it. That wouldn’t do anything, unless you enjoy your cookies wet.
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