JessFR
Bluelight Crew
1) Something cannot be amazingly ineffective in comparison to nothing. The adjectival part of your statement (at the very least) is meaningless without some kind of context. If a vaccine is 10% effective and it is the only vaccine, you might say it is "amazingly ineffective", but - really - it is the most effective vaccine. Like I said, everything is relative.
Of course it can.
Go drive your car off a cliff and try and use it as a flying machine. Then tell me that it wasn't amazingly ineffective for that purpose. You don't need to see a plane to compare it with to see how ineffective it was. :D it was 100% ineffective. The goal was for it to fly, it dropped like a stone instead. :D
2) The "significant majority of the time" what doesn't work? Rationalization? I'm not going to bother asking you to cite a source for that, because clearly it's a ridiculous statement. You appear to be suggesting we shouldn't explain why certain things are irrational. Does that apply to the irrational fear of black people, too? What other irrational fears should we not bother to rationalize in your opinion?
3) Sure the trauma can still linger after we make our best efforts to help people understand why it shouldn't linger, but I don't see why that means we shouldn't try to rationalize it. I'm not traumatizing people by telling them they shouldn't allow the church (or other people) to traumatize them. I'm not traumatizing people by suggesting that sex is natural and they shouldn't worry about it... My point is: the trauma doesn't come from the sexual act, it comes from external influences that make us feel shame/guilt. You appear to be arguing that we should just leave the trauma as is and not bother to try and help people understand that they shouldn't feel shame/guilt?
No I'm arguing that there are limits to the effectiveness of rational arguments against human feelings.
You argued that, for instance, homosexual sex isn't naturally traumatic but only becomes that because of cultural or religious influences. I'm arguing that even though that's true, making that argument doesn't actually change the reality that it IS traumatic for some people.
I'm arguing against trying to logic people out of their feelings.
I don't need "sources" to make that argument.
