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It never ceases to amaze me the extent to which a humanity's response to new life is either: "Can I eat it?" or "How do I kill it?".

Not that surprising when food and safety are two of the most basic human needs.

It actually makes a lot of sense from a survival of the fittest standpoint.

You forgot the classic third option, “Can I have sex with this?”

Probably the first option in fact.

And that's why you're here, now

do we live in the same century ?

Can you propose a more current way of checking whether a thing tastes good?

Finding someone else to eat it?

Recursion doesn't mean that you get to ignore the base case!

However the responsibility has to fall on anyone on that chain of delegates.

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