I see a lot about how peppers are upset because humans eat them for the thing that was supposed to prevent them from doing that, but capsaicin was supposed to help pepper seeds propagate since mammals couldn't propagate them, and we cultivate pepers on a massive scale because of the capsaicin. So I think that it was a net win for the pepper and the capsaicin did it's job, just in an unexpected way. Like, yeah, task failed in stopping mammals from eating you, but you did manage to become wildly successful because a particular group of mammals like the capsaicin.
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