>The only thing I know that can help with this is accepting in one's heart that humans are nearly entirely wrong about nearly everything, and making peace with it.
I can't. Being wrong means that people exterminate themselves. It isn't something meaningless that doesn't matter.
>Also, people don't choose their views—for the most part we're conditioned by our backgrounds.
Ironically, this appears to be another symptom, just like the intensification of their existing beliefs by contrary evidence. Which also makes them intensify their belief in ever increasing progress even as the majority turns into savages.
>The body has plenty of functions that are best left on their default settings or minimized.
We're arguing what the 'default' is. I'm arguing the default state is with lead. It would be strange for a protein to evolve to get so easily activated by a toxin.
>To show it's healthy you'd need studies showing better health of exposed people, or at least some theoretical reason you'd want lead to make it even plausible.
I thing it's completely uncontroversial that the current typical human health is at the historic rock bottom.
There is no reason theoretical or not to believe it is toxic in the first place, except for the strange claim that the body uses it in error.
>The neanderthals probably ate stuff from lead rich soil or something, that doesn't prove it wasn't harmful.
That's an absurd claim, and really grasping at straws, don't you think? Mote that the remains aren't many. It isn't that they sieved through thousands of teeth to find a couple that were poisoned.
It's a lie. The effects are always beneficial except in extreme doses. No dose that makes no difference is exactly what you would expect from a nutrient.
Yes, iron overload seems to interfere with lead. Calcium not so much, it seems it rather makes lead used for building more bone. Licking lead causes cravings for calcium rich food.
The fact that it has always been there casts a great doubt on the claims about its toxicity. It can be found through the ages in human remains and in geological remains that clearly predate people.
Yes, they never get to the stage when you talk nonsense when they drink alcohol. (they can't readily tell, it seems, they need to test you in some way)
I'm saying that the majority is now psychopaths.
I'm still more inclined that the drop in IQ is an artifact, but even if intelligence is improved in some way, it's useless when the person is asocial.