>>16720164 (OP)Conservation of moral energy, the same principle that makes primitive people think that there's a finite amount of (female) virgins you need to sacrifice to change the weather. It's a pretty good instinct for figuring out basic laws of physics on a caveman level, it got us very far, but it always degenerates into nonsense superstitions beyond that, all centered on the core idea of there being a rigidly finite amount of good juju we are dispensed from the heavens every day, sometimes shared with other people in a spiritual zero-sum game. This is the mechanism behind almost all religious rituals and superstitions, especially sacrifices and fasts.
The exact dissonance comes from trying to project the generally sound idea of energy conservation onto an arbitrary moral plane. If said moral plane is not perfectly aligned with physical and biological reality, and I mean mercilessly objective to the point of scary and alien, you are inevitably going to believe and do some really stupid shit. Basically, the same instinct that allowed you to reason correctly about things like lightning, and would eventually lead you to discover something called the "electromagnetic field" - here it is a complete waste of time as no amount of nofap science is ever going to lead you to discover the waifuvaginal field. Even if some notion of scoring and conservation can be intuitively applied to morals (and indeed it's the basis of them), it really doesn't rub well with purely victimless crimes that do nothing more than personally offend you, which is what we're dealing with here.
One thing that cannot be ignored here is Americans. They are the ones championing nofap the loudest, and it can be traced to these causes:
>religion>circumcision>nutritionto elaborate on which would be too much for a shitpost, but you can probably infer what I'm getting at.
