What is your personal threshold for being grossed out by owning an object that was once part of a living being, and why?
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Okay, but all the other things I listed were foods, I thought this was a continuation on that theme.
No problem
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Wait till you think about where your water's been.
Water is created and destroyed by nature, non-stop since forever.
Photosynthesis:
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2
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Oh yeah, being turned into a book is unlikely to be worth the headache for anyone involved. The tree burials that are legal in some spots is a reasonable option. Or just donation to science.
Whatever is cheapest/lowest fuss is fine. If that means I get reused or recycled great! If not, just don't let me be a bother.
Sky burial is also awesome. Hopefully there are enough vultures to keep that up in at least some places. There's a 99% Invisible episode that talks about collapsing vulture populations resulting in issues with doing it in India.
Oh crap, I didn't know that.
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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.
Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.
What makes one thing gross but the other okay?
wrote last edited by [email protected]My line is at wet specimens.
I don't even mind handling dead mice for my snake to eat, and I have a few small taxidermies around. I've even handled human teeth and had one of my own that had to get pulled (tooth fairy stole it though)
But wet specimens creep me TF out, especially if they've been diaphonized. I hate to say it but I've even seen wet human specimens (stillborns), that is a HELL FUCKING NO from me
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What we find gross is mostly arbitrary and emotional. It’s loosely based on the perception of filth but most people who find something gross will continue to find that thing gross even if they know it’s clean. If someone feels like snakes are gross, they watch you take a snake and scrub it clean with soap and water (don’t actually do this obviously) and you try to hand them the scrubbed snake, most people would continue to call it gross. Furthermore, if you ask most people why they find something gross, they won’t be able to give you a real answer. (Food seems to be an exception but we mean something entirely different and much more specific when calling food gross unless we are saying that the food is somehow foul or unclean)
In most cases, when someone calls something gross, they are doing so as a reaction to a feeling it gives them. Whatever they say after that tends to be some form of post-hoc justification to legitimize that feeling.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My pet snake self cleans by taking frequent baths. It's adorable
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My pet snake self cleans by taking frequent baths. It's adorable
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