Louster
One of Freddy's beloved
- Joined
- Dec 26, 2003
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To even bring it up as a point of view would mark you out as being either a)fucking simple, or b) someone who's never been out of thier bedroom and is fairly unlikely to ever procreate, and therefore is also unlikely to fully understand the feelings of anger, grief and a desire for vengence that would be brought out in any parent or reasoned adult.
Nope. And to even say this marks you, again, as someone for whom "thinking is bad omg". Everything about life, and us, requires explanation - you can't just 'magic it away' because it's 'so natural and oh god you just don't understand' because that's the sort of unthinking bullshit that gets you nowhere, and has absolutely no explanatory or logical merit. It's people like you that, completely inexplicably, distrust 'experts' as they, you know, think and know too much about stuff. Which is bad. Somehow.
I've already explained why grief is, at first glance, completely detrimental at an evolutionary level, and hence its existence literally begs explanation - if it did not have any advantages, and given its obvious disadvantages, it would have been selected out of us a long, long time ago. Tilda's response is basically the theory that I mentioned, only with 'miss' instead of a more general 'grief response', which I think is possibly a little misleading. But I have a sneaking suspicion that repeating this point over and over won't make any dents in your arrogance at all. Call it a hunch.