Oh yeah Long tradition of this in the United States specifically (although it was around throughout Europe) They had a very serious scientific belief that overstimulation of the senses was generally bad for you, descended from a Christian idea of avoiding lust and passion
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Yeah, and I mean overall, that makes sense to me in the context of a fast. I don't do it and I don't want to, but if my goal was internal, mortification-of-the-flesh and bodily-abstraction, it's about all this stuff.
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There' are some analogs in the laws of kashrut too, although typically for different purposes. These are ritual, symbolic actions, not rationalist literal ones.
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Other religions do this to onions and garlic but, oddly enough, not to hot chili peppers.
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Wasn't this also a product of colonialism adapting the rules to bring natives' staples on board?
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Yeah the capybara thing especially does not actually make logical sense to me -- capybaras and their meat are not at all similar to fish That one feels a lot like people just lying to the authorities back home and getting away with it
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