Posted: Sep 26, 2017 7:09 am
Fallible wrote:It doesn't matter. Or rather it wouldn't, if I didn't have some personal quirk which means I feel discomfort when I see such things not looking how I feel they are supposed to be. I don't know if it comes from my OCD or is more of an aspie trait, of which I exhibit a few. There are conventions, which is what I referred to above. It does genuinely cause me discomfort, by the way. I work voluntarily on a Monday in the local cancer ward, and they offer massage and various other things. So far I have managed not to ask them to change every instance where they have written or printed 'complimentary therapies' around the place, but I don't know if I can hold out much longer.
'complimentary therapies' ? I'm too obtuse, what's the matter with this one?
If I had such strong reactions to seeing things that didn't look right, I'd commit suicide multiple times a day, just looking in the mirror would cause spontaneous human combustion. Many conventions are highly malleable, inconsistent in time and place, and illogical. How do you decide which conventions are OK and which aren't?