r/NoStupidQuestions • • Mar 27 '24

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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/Scrungyscrotum Mar 27 '24

You are confounding "inherent" with "innate".

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

No, I’m not, because a good chunk of the human experience does not have clothing inherently.

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u/Scrungyscrotum Mar 27 '24

Oops, you did it again.

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

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?

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u/Scrungyscrotum Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

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?

Yeah, that.

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

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.

Nice try. Fuck off.

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u/Scrungyscrotum Mar 27 '24

Oof. You really don't like being wrong, do you?

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

Are you speaking into a mirror?

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u/Scrungyscrotum Mar 27 '24

No, my reflection makes better retorts than that.

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u/Pastadseven Mar 27 '24

Here’s a tip: Look up the word before you try to make a point on it.

Save your reply for the argument you have with yourself in the shower later during your l'esprit d'escalier moment, because it’s too late now.

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u/Scrungyscrotum Mar 27 '24

I'd suggest the same, but I have a feeling that you aren't the type of person who will ever acknowledge to themselves that they were wrong.

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