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It kind of does. No one is hurt by bad smells, and at the very worst, you have to deal with a few unpleasant moments before your senses recalibrate, and then yo
by drcube 13y ago
It kind of does. No one is hurt by bad smells, and at the very worst, you have to deal with a few unpleasant moments before your senses recalibrate, and then you don't notice the odor anymore. And when everybody smells more or less the same, nobody has to feel inferior.
Marketers basically invented a pretty pit for people to throw their money in, and made them self conscious of their natural bodies in the process. It's had an almost entirely negative influence on the world.
Garbage in New York is unsanitary, attracts pests, and causes disease. Human body odor does not. They are not comparable.
- rayiner 13y agoGarbage in New York is well contained in plastic backs and doesn't cause disease. The most offensive part of it is the smell, and it is comparable.
- tincholio 13y agoDude, I have met (in France, yay stereotypes!) some people whose smell would make you retch. One guy in particular was in the next office, and I kid you not, you could tell how long ago he had arrived by the stench in the hallway. I can't even imagine how the guy he shared his office with managed to do any work...
- hannibal5 13y agoYou might react so badly to his smell if you were not conditioned othervice. You just don't realize that you are in cultural and subjective bubble and you don't have objective keys to the world of smells. If you travel around, you will realize that people have different smells and some of them are really strong. When you get used to them, they stop bothering you.
- bluthru 13y ago>No one is hurt by bad smells Sure we are. Productivity is reduced if we're distracted by stench. Why argue for making life less pleasant? Bathing and mitigating foul odor should be encouraged.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThe "natural human body" wasn't meant to have clothes on, or spend all day indoors in close quarters with other humans. When you take humans out of their natural environment, can you really argue that features of the human body are "natural" and thus in some way inviolable? Garbage in New York... attracts pests. Human body odor does not. Good to know. Flies must be attracted to something other than body odor & sweat then. Perhaps... body heat?
- dragonwriter 13y ago> The "natural human body" wasn't meant to have clothes on Stop anthropomorphizing nature; it gets angry when you do that.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI'm adopting the speech device for the sake of communicating effectively with the people I am talking to, not because I believe nature "intended" this or that.
- beachstartup 13y ago> Perhaps... body heat? well, mosquitos (which carry disease) are attracted to carbon dioxide.
- dnautics 13y agoBut human body odor may be indicative of physiological problems, and being aware of your own odor can give you insight into what's going on under the skin.