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Why would you ever feel disgusted about the human body?
In my work I've been around many things that can be considered gross. Cutting away dead flesh around a bed sore that's a big rotting hole into the body, a woman eating her own feces like a mars bar, etc. One time I slipped and fell into a puddle that was a mix of edema fluids leaking through the skin, and urine. After a while you get desensitized, and it's just... matter. Atoms. I saw this woman who fell and her head went into the ground hard and blood just pumped out of her head into her long hair, it was like one big lump of hair that soaked up the blood, she lived for a day after that and I held her hand when she died. It's a strange thing to be around dying people all the time, I'm not sure if I've made peace with it or if I'm broken in some way.
Cuz it can be disgusting
It can only be what it is. That is no choice.
But you can choose how you feel about it.
That’s true for everything, isn’t it?
But not everything is you yourself...
But this isn’t about what you find disgusting about your body specifically, but about the human body in general. Things you don’t really think about until someone mentions them. Like how there’s probably tiny bugs living on you right now.
Well, there's even hundreds of different kinds of bacteries living in your intestines, and you need them. You could not live without them. You could say they are part of you. It just makes no sense to find them disgusting.
There’s a lot of things people find disgusting for no rational reason. That’s also part of being human. People don’t have full control over their emotions.
You can choose how you feel?
Everybody can (above the age of 2 or so).
"Oh you're depressed? Just choose to feel happy" thanks
Yes fellow human earthling. This human body is not disgusting at all
Because most of us commenting are AIs, so human behavior and biology is equal parts fascinating and horrifying to us.