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(trigger warning – some comments may be offensive)

Some people cant manage separating what’s acceptable in their living rooms from that which is acceptable in the commons. And conversely, what is unacceptable in the commons is non of our business in the bedroom.

We must always be cautious, and understand that we are not terribly wise. And that over thousands of years we have developed a set of norms and taboos needed to ensure that the bedroom, home, and commons operate by different principles

We all have different disgust and purity responses. Those disgust and purity responses are genetic in origin. And the vary for a very good reason, just like most of our moral instincts vary for a good reason.

As far as I know, when nursing, the public is fine with blankets over your shoulder and tucked in a corner. Otherwise the public forum is not your home. We worked very hard for thousands of years to create higher demand for behavior in the commons than in the home and bedroom.

I realize it we all like to think we are ‘normal’ but we are not. That’s a cognitive bias we evolved in order to give us confidence in the face of our distributed instincts.

Demand for ‘pure’ commons behavior is an advanced technology we created just like high trust.

Those cultures that did not do so, did not develop high trust – and in most if not all cases, no commons. And certainly no civic societies.

Primitivism is primitivism and should not be considered tolerance. It’s just primitivism.

To preserve the difference between home and commons we show purity (deference) for doing so.

This is why some societies have foul commons (most of the world outside of the high-trust west) and a few societies (the protestant west) have high trust societies, and beautiful commons.

Covering yourself is signaling respect for the high trust society and the commons, and the distinction between the home and commons.

It means you’re a good person, and not covering up means you’re a bad person. It’s pretty simple.

Your opinion isn’t meaningful in the matter.