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Creep is a useless term. You can say that anything is creepy.

• imtringued 7y ago
  But it's always better if something isn't creepy, right? So if we remove all the creepy things everything will be better!
  • dependenttypes 7y ago
    Creepiness is in the eye of the beholder, considering that one of the ways to get rid of it is to remove the people who think that a certain action is creepy for example. Reality is more complex than that though - just like it would be a net-negative to remove a victim of constant harassment in order to reduce creepiness it would also be a net-negative if we removed someone who asked someone else once on a date because someone found it creepy.
    • ryandrake 7y ago
      Exactly. Words like "creepy" (and "beautiful" for that matter) are not inherent attributes of a person. They are labels applied by the recipient of some action after the fact, based entirely on the recipient's thoughts and emotions. So, something I do can be interpreted as creepy by one person but totally fine by another. Does that automatically make me creepy? Someone, somewhere might find me to be good looking (I can only imagine). Does that automatically make me an inherently good looking person?
  • x220 7y ago
    People have called Brad Pitt "creepy". Would you rather live in a world where Brad Pitt had never acted so that some people wouldn't have to see his "creepiness"?