Ignorance is bliss. Some people choose that path and get upset when their chosen world view is questioned.
An easy example is hygiene. Most people understand that hygiene is closely tied to the health of yourself and others.
Some people don’t have that knowledge or don’t want to accept that fact because it is easier to not shower, wash clothes, or maintain a clean living space.
I feel like given the extreme social pressures surrounding maintaining at least the appearance of hygiene standards, it isn’t very likely that people are not doing it because it’s easier. It’s definitely not easier to not be able to hold a job or be readily accepted in public as you would if you hadn’t showered or washed your clothes in a while.
There are plenty of remote work or low face to face jobs out there.
You know as well as I that there are people, who are not dealing with mental health issues, that neglect at least some basic hygenic routines.
If you want, you can go with the emotional route of:
They should care about how their hygiene could negatively effect others. But it is easier to not care about how their hygiene could result in somebody getting sick, because then they would have to change their lifestyle so they don’t feel guilty.
i dont know that actually. as far as i know the few people ive ever known who struggled with their hygiene like you describe has been either homeless or mentally ill.
There’s also plenty of people with the brain capacity and breath of knowledge to argue their points logically who chose to instead go around logic with salesmen/politician techniques like appeals to emotion and half-truths because that’s just a lot easier than assembling a reasoned and informed argument.
It also allows them to make a point for things which ultimately they want out of some motivation generally deemed as morally bad (greed, selfishness, laziness) without it eventually coming out - say, somebody who finds facemasks uncomfortable to wear and don’t really care during an epidemic if they spread it to others, who push the “no face masks” thing as some kind of moral crusade in order to hide their selfish motivations and callousness towards others.
My impression is that this has become increasingly more common in the last couple of decades.
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So they made us to live in this way.
Ignorance is bliss. Some people choose that path and get upset when their chosen world view is questioned.
An easy example is hygiene. Most people understand that hygiene is closely tied to the health of yourself and others.
Some people don’t have that knowledge or don’t want to accept that fact because it is easier to not shower, wash clothes, or maintain a clean living space.
I feel like given the extreme social pressures surrounding maintaining at least the appearance of hygiene standards, it isn’t very likely that people are not doing it because it’s easier. It’s definitely not easier to not be able to hold a job or be readily accepted in public as you would if you hadn’t showered or washed your clothes in a while.
There are plenty of remote work or low face to face jobs out there.
You know as well as I that there are people, who are not dealing with mental health issues, that neglect at least some basic hygenic routines.
If you want, you can go with the emotional route of:
They should care about how their hygiene could negatively effect others. But it is easier to not care about how their hygiene could result in somebody getting sick, because then they would have to change their lifestyle so they don’t feel guilty.
i dont know that actually. as far as i know the few people ive ever known who struggled with their hygiene like you describe has been either homeless or mentally ill.
It may not be a relateable example to you then.
You could also take a look at people who think immigrants are lesser than Americans™️.
If immigrants had the same standing as Americans™️ in their worldview, it would be very hard to justify the cruelty the govt is enacting on them.
Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
It is easier to just call them all criminals and turn a blind eye to the injustices.
There’s also plenty of people with the brain capacity and breath of knowledge to argue their points logically who chose to instead go around logic with salesmen/politician techniques like appeals to emotion and half-truths because that’s just a lot easier than assembling a reasoned and informed argument.
It also allows them to make a point for things which ultimately they want out of some motivation generally deemed as morally bad (greed, selfishness, laziness) without it eventually coming out - say, somebody who finds facemasks uncomfortable to wear and don’t really care during an epidemic if they spread it to others, who push the “no face masks” thing as some kind of moral crusade in order to hide their selfish motivations and callousness towards others.
My impression is that this has become increasingly more common in the last couple of decades.
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