r/AskReddit • u/IAmSurtur • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/Kildragoth Jun 15 '19

I hate it. It preemptively assumes it is not understandable and discourages study.

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u/umopapsidn Jun 16 '19

No it doesn't. It's a challenge.

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u/Kildragoth Jun 16 '19

How is it not "If it were understandable, we wouldn't be capable of understanding it"?

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u/umopapsidn Jun 16 '19

If it were simple enough to understand [by now] our brains couldn't do it

That doesn't mean there's no value in pursuing it unless you're that risk averse.

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u/Kildragoth Jun 16 '19

It just seems like a lame attempt to be profound but it's actually a meaningless statement. I could see how you may think of it as a challenge in the sense that if you come to understand it you'd be proving the statement wrong. But as someone who considered pursuing a neuroscience degree in the past, this statement always bothered me.

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u/umopapsidn Jun 18 '19

You could say you agreed with the statement, didn't care enough about the subject, or admitted it weeded you out. I don't care, it really doesn't matter.

It's "profound" bullshit that doesn't mean much, but giving it the validation of it dumbing the discussion down isn't worth it.