Odors aren't inherently unpleasant to be around, and you're being incredibly uncritical by believing that. Humans routinely condition ourselves into not just accepting but loving pungent smells like funky cheese, vinegar in our salad, durian, and we even condition ourselves to associate chemical lung-burning smells such as bleach or chlorine with cleanliness and start to like their smell.

If you can't critically examine smells and the social conditioning around them, I don't have anything else to say to you. I just hope one day you can feel the love I feel for my girlfriend when I smell her faint scent in the morning after waking up before she showers.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i get into internet arguments about showering specifically so i can critically examine my own opinions. but you bring up durian as an example. you would expect that if it were as routine as you say, the people most exposed to it would be happy to marinate in durian smells. i can't find a single airline anywhere in the world that will allow you to eat durian during the flight. yes, there are sociopolitical implications, but unsealed durians are prohibited on singaporean transit. how, then, could it be as simple as "routine conditioning"?

[–] Feed_el_Castro@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Great job overfocusing on Durians and bringing up private airline policy instead of responding to the idea of social conditioning of smell

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ok well that was my response to the idea of social conditioning of smell

[–] Feed_el_Castro@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A private company's policy during capitalism?

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

first off, it's not a private company. it's (more or less) every airline and metro, public or private. secondly, so what? capital isn't a black box that takes any input and returns the most evil output. it acts according to laws that can be understood and studied. what particular law of capital produced the result in question?