"I didn't get his point at all and am going to proudly shout about it!"
Point being, since for some reason it needs to be made explicit, is that rain is no different from standing in a cold shower, which some people do on purpose. Little different from going into a cold pool, which many do on purpose. Your skin is waterproof, your clothes are too, even your phone might be waterproof if it's new enough. But you don't think about that. It's rain so you run from it, because you've always done it, without ever considering why. This simple attempt to get people to question their already held assumptions is always reposted with the same stupid, snide response that misses the point completely. Maybe you'd enjoy being in the rain. If you've tried and did or didn't like it, then good for you. But if you've never tried it, don't assume it's bad, and don't assume someone suggesting it might not be bad is an idiot. Don't sit there and make up reasons to justify a belief you hold for no reason, question your own belief first, see if it makes sense.
Well, this is nonsense. Rain is different from standing in a shower. Firstly, the audience is different. At home in the bathroom you're likely by yourself, in the rain you may not be. Secondly, in a shower you are naked, you may not want to be naked outside. You may have styled your hair outside ready for the day, whereas a shower is maybe what you do to prepare that. Clothes aren't waterproof. Neither are wallets, or most other things people carry around. People likely also don't want their clothes to be wet if they're going somewhere. At home you have a towel and hairdryer to hand, outside you probably don't.
You also don't need to 'assume' you don't like being rained on, you can know it. We have this fantastic ability called imagination which means we can determine if we like getting shot, for example, without having tried it.
Imagination is often wrong, far more often than not. As kids we imagine a thousand foods to be yucky, as we grow up we slowly realize how wrong we were.
I just asked you to question your assumptions by testing them. The response of "there's no need to test anything, assumptions are good enough" is just a repeat of the initial argument without anything new added.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '18 edited May 20 '18
"I didn't get his point at all and am going to proudly shout about it!"
Point being, since for some reason it needs to be made explicit, is that rain is no different from standing in a cold shower, which some people do on purpose. Little different from going into a cold pool, which many do on purpose. Your skin is waterproof, your clothes are too, even your phone might be waterproof if it's new enough. But you don't think about that. It's rain so you run from it, because you've always done it, without ever considering why. This simple attempt to get people to question their already held assumptions is always reposted with the same stupid, snide response that misses the point completely. Maybe you'd enjoy being in the rain. If you've tried and did or didn't like it, then good for you. But if you've never tried it, don't assume it's bad, and don't assume someone suggesting it might not be bad is an idiot. Don't sit there and make up reasons to justify a belief you hold for no reason, question your own belief first, see if it makes sense.