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gohrt on Sept 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tramadol Is Not a Natural Product After All

Right. Oxygen was very bad for life when it appeared. Oxygen is good for life now, that evolved in its wake. I don't want massive quantities of stuff appearing that is bad for life now.

pron on Sept 16, 2014 [–]

But that "bad stuff" is just as likely to be a natural product (as was oxygen during the catastrophe) as it's likely to be synthetic.

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