If it's bad to scratch off your scabs, why does it feel good? This isn't a "humans invented chocolate and now our caveman food heuristics are wrong" situation. If anything it's *less* bad to scratch scabs now than it was in antiquity. I'm just asking questions here.

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@mogwai_poet scab's a foreign object adhered to your body and it's probably too evolutionarily complex/taxing/low-reward to evolve a way to differentiate between it and a burr or dried mud or whatever

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