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It’s funny that you write this like it was some natural law rather than your own personal mentality.
by nautilius 5y ago
It’s funny that you write this like it was some natural law rather than your own personal mentality.
- Lammy 5y ago> like it was some natural law Yeah https://web.archive.org/web/20100611222125/http://biae.clemson.edu/bpc/bp/Lab/110/reaction.htm#Simple%20vs. https://web.archive.org/web/20100611222125/http://biae.clems...
- nautilius 5y agoHmm. I still see nothing about a natural law of having to be offended when I misunderstand a different language. For me personally, the whole context shifts. Does your heart start pumping when you see a photograph of Churchill making the same gesture? It's hard for me to connect your example of filling gas in Oregon to being reflexively insulted. Is that how you feel in your car, reflexively offended by Oregonian gas stations before your cultural sensitivity has time to resurface? Again, I have to say that I am sure personal differences are strong here, because I don't feel an uncontrollable bodily urge to jump put and fill up the tank within 140-220ms [1] of arriving at a gas station before my consciousness kicks in and I can make decisions again. [1] From your linked article.