Reply #141: I understand, it's about seeing the creaturelinss that's repulsive [View All]

[Cronus Protagonist]

People don't want to see each other shit either. Yes, there are people who get off on these things as fetishes, but that's a whole other area of psychology regarding the sexualization of our creatureliness as a method of dominating it and thereby rendering it powerless.

Most "normal" people are to varying degrees repulsed by knowing that themselves and the objects of their adoration do things like shitting, peeing, fucking, breast feeding, kissing, anal penetration, oral/anal contact, oral/genital contact, etc... We, as thinking people who elevate ourselves above the mere animals in this world, are upset when this illusion is broken and the social agreement to pretend we're above all that is violated. Look at how many people have a compulsive need for their world to be "perfect" and "clean". Even murdering thousands or millions of people is referred to as "cleansing".

It's a major thread in humanity and appears to be at the root of most of the world's problems, since it's at the root of the human condition.

If you're really interested in this topic, I can recommend no better single book to begin with than Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death. It's my favorite book and I've read it more than ten times and still find new insights about the human condition each time.

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