People complain about heat in spicy food

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It's even called 'arrabbiata', which means angry in Italian... so how stupid must someone be to complain about that? Not at all as hot as some Indian food like vindaloo, and yet reviews keep being added against its very spiciness, and people 'like' it, just as they're voting for a billionaire to solve their pauper problems... what they really seem to have a problem with is intelligence. Or literacy perhaps, as even not knowing Italian the description clearly pinpoints the spiciness...

(Food preference is, of course, nothing compared to electing a deluded fascist who wants to kill women and children...)

Personally, it's hard for me to enjoy food when it feels like it's burning away my stomach lining. But people who don't like sweets complain and act like my eating one cookie is going to give me the diabeetus.

And then there are people who feel anything that actually gives flavors to food is too spicy. I've known at least one person who thought ketchup was too spicy. She would cook chicken and not put a single thing on it, not even Shake N Bake.

Well, people have different tastes and flavors tolerances. It's not wrong, it's just different. I know some cultures traditionally eat spicier food than others.

I like spicy, I dump hot sauce or cayenne on most things

@green0star: Have you tried Sriracha? Aside from ghost peppers (from India), the spiciest stuff comes from the Caribbean.

It may be because perception of spice intensity is subjective and individual, so it's difficult to rate spiciness for everyone - I see those spice meter things, from 1 - 5, 1 being mild and 5 being very hot and a scale in between.
But what one person thinks of as spicy may be mild to another. So, someone may think they like spicy food as regards their own perceptions of it, but another's idea of spicy is too spicy.
I tend to like spicy food, but only if it has flavour as well as heat. Things that are just hot and uncomfortable without taste don't appeal.
And what has your political ideas got to do with spicy food? There's already enough about the American election in the political forum, it doesn't need spreading into this one.