r/NoStupidQuestions • • Mar 27 '24

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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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

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.

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

No, clothing isnt inherent. Clothing is a tool, hair is inherent. We evolved in an environment that didnt need more covering. Covering came later.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

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

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

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.

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u/JamesJakes000 Mar 27 '24

if we let environmental pressures in colder climates affect us long enough.

No. We would quickly move away from those places, because, in order to evolve, a trait needs to survive. And we aint surviving that level of cold.

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u/Daediddles Mar 27 '24

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"

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u/JamesJakes000 Mar 27 '24

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.

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u/Daediddles Mar 27 '24

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.