Comment on kissies
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months agohuh it’s not an argument it’s just my opinion. Dogs mouths are super dirty, saliva is a bit gross. If you are used to just getting dirty and clean all the time another way of getting dirty doesn’t seem that bothersome.
Like most people are grossed out by being vomited on, after you care for babies for a while or work security at a messy bar or whatever you stop being that grossed out because it happens hundreds of times. Work at a vet or on an animal farm and piss and shit getting on you stops being so nasty.
It’s not a moral judgement, just that if a pet licking you seems really gross you probably aren’t used to getting stuff on your face that you just go wipe/wash off.
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
You can have opinions with arguments. That’s not mutually exclusive.
“I think [opinion] because [argument]”
Just in this case your opinion was just implied by your argument.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
You’re taking this very seriously antiseptic boy :p
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That’s where we can agree on.
Hence the “irrationally grossed out” part. It’s not a controlled thing, I’m not choosing to feel grossed out, I just do. So you can understand that your reply was akin to telling an arachophobe: “You’re probably a city dweller that’s never been to the countryside, we have them everywhere there”. It comes off as arrogant and know-it-all.
I have nothing personal against you though.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Oh psh, everybodies house is full of spiders and other friendlies. Also you can treat phobias unless they’re extremely severe.
So yes, an arachnaphobe probably hasn’t worked with spiders :p
I’m significantly afraid of heights, like woozy standing on a chair fear, hasn’t stopped me doing maintenance on a roof or riding all the horrifying giant drop rides/cross canyon flying foxes etc I come across. Fear doesn’t stop you doing stuff, you just have to do it scared.