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The person I replied to was saying you can taste them to tell if they're poisonous safely before cooking.
I don't know if you're reading someone else's comment but that kind of misinformation is very, very dangerous so if you take issue with the actual words being used to try to keep people from following bad, dangerous advice. I don't care.
You are just making statements out of ignorance--or that's how the writing comes out. You are right in that taste provides no indication if something is going to hurt you or not. I hear lead tastes sweet, as is automobile coolant.
I was picking at your characterization that safe mushrooms exist. If you mean safe to eat, there are relevant specifics to consider, such as what it grew on and how it was preparted.
You offer advice without clarifying things--perhaps you could use the term "known to be safe to eat when cooked wild mushroom".
Safest advice would be: contact your local mycologist for a 100% accurate guarantee that it is what you think it is.
I get your intentions and am sorry to have caused offense!
I think you're earnest about getting the terminology right, but that's very distracting to the broader message, which is avoiding situations where you are harmed by not knowing enough about what you're eating. It's counter-productive because it sounds like you're saying my information is wrong rather than just broad.
For example:
This kind of pedantry is insufferable, I know you don't mean it to be, but it turns people away from the whole topic. See: Reddit and The Fall of Unidan. You can have the best intentions and miss the train completely because you're trying to force a conversation to use a specific language when the point of the conversation is very simple and aimed at non-experts in the field.
I know more about guns than I do mushrooms (But I do know quite a bit about both) but if I saw someone say "Don't point the gun at something you don't intend to shoot" I wouldn't attack that and say "YoU MeAn ThE bARReL of tHe Gun..." it would make me sound like a clown, when everyone knows what's trying to be communicated.
I'm really not trying to attack you here, I'm sure you know more about mushrooms than me, but I know I'm not broadly wrong for giving people advice for staying safe if they know less than either of us.
You wrote things that were blatantly false while offering advice on a subject you don't know about--why?
For instance:
Is broadly wrong, there is nothing specific to mushrooms here, and this is entirely incoherent.
Also incoherent and wrong.
Also incredibly presumptuious, and again wrong.
I can't and won't make a single statement regarding guns. I happen to have been foraging for mushrooms for the majority of my life and care deeply about it.
I feel attacked, and I find your statement entirely disingenuous!
For all of your intentions, you haven't listed one relevant resource or factual article that will actually be of help to anybody who wants to know more on the subject, just a series of things and are incoherent and make no sense.
Please suffer my padentry! For the sake of the dialog here, I can't presume to know what readers will or won't think about what I write here. I find that sort of paternalistic condensention revolting. It's the height of arrogance to presume you know anything of those who are reading, be they your lessers or betters. But please don't let me dissuade you for your own sake.
I've written my bit and that's done.
fwiw, this obviously isn't reddit and I have no idea what he reference to Unidan has to do with this.
Sorry I care about keeping people safe, it won't happen again.
I won't see any more of your messages, I say again you are being way too "hobby enthusiast" when we're talking about people who have already died from eating wild mushrooms. It's not a place for dissecting nuance and details for broader public who knows far less than you. Again, you are embodying my last point and muddying very basic safety instructions given to me by a fucking mycologist for talking to average people who might be interested in the hobby with no experience. You are either dense or obtuse or both.
You seem to care more about your hobby than people's lives, and that's just fucking weird, and I don't want to interact anymore because I suspect you might be a very weird person and I am wasting my energy trying to get you to see reality through human eyes.
No mycologist would suggest you should misinform. Full stop.