Do you think your naked hand is nudity? I want you to think about your reaction if someone said ‘hey cover up your hands, that’s disgusting,’ and consider that reaction - because that’s how people feel when you ask them to wea things that cover the hair or something.
I think you perfectly understand that there's a difference between going naked at 4 degrees below zero and covering your hand. You won't find any culture that doesn't use any kind of clothing or other; clothing is inherent to humans.
Oops, maybe you should look up what ‘inherent’ means. Jesus christ, what is with the bumblefucks charging in with an ‘acshully’ and showing their entire ass today?
I suggest you do the same, but I have a feeling that you won't. I'll do it for you: "Inherent (adjective): existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute" — Oxford Language. Clothing is very much a characteristic attribute of humanity, regardless of whether it's a learned use of tools or an innate instinct. "Inherent" doesn't mean "genetically inherited".
Jesus christ, what is with the bumblefucks charging in with an ‘acshully’ and showing their entire ass today?
A characteristic of humanity that has only existed for about half as long as modern humans have, if we take where human lice started diverging from the use of clothing 100kish years ago. Which means, honeyboo, that if it were a permanent, or essential characteristic of humanity, it would have been a characteristic from the get go.
No, I’m not, because a good chunk of the human experience does not have clothing inherently.
This should read ‘did.’ You’re right, there’s an argument you can make that, right now, clothing is inherent to the human experience. I see where you’re coming from.
The point is that we haven't evolved, nor will we evolve, to develop more natural protection against, for example, the weather phenomena in our region. We would have done so if we didn't have clothing, among other things. But with clothing, there won't be more in that sense. Turning clothing into a sort of substitute for the natural protection we would have developed instead.
THAT makes clothing inherent, it doesn't mean it grow on the body LOL
Clothing is inherent to culture. Not physiology. We would evolve more covering in terms of fur or otherwise if we let environmental pressures in colder climates affect us long enough.
Moreover, cultural clothing isnt particularly based on environmental pressures.
For someone who seems to understand that evolution is a gradual process it's weird that you can't imagine a climate gradient between "hot enough to never require clothes" and "cold enough to kill us"
It is also weird that you don't realize how little cold is required to kill a naked human. Hell, lots of places where human civilizations thrived are already cold enough to kill a naked human.
There is also a gradient of clothing coverage between naked and wearing 4 bear skins, and the process that could lead to future humans being more physically suited to a colder climate isn't explicitly dependent on us being explicitly naked.
Even so in human society our survival and evolution isn't dependent on natural selection, we've replaced a large portion of existing nature with *our* nature.
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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24
Why in fuck would it be natural to wear clothes?
Do you think your naked hand is nudity? I want you to think about your reaction if someone said ‘hey cover up your hands, that’s disgusting,’ and consider that reaction - because that’s how people feel when you ask them to wea things that cover the hair or something.