Showing posts with label nurture. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sourcing Disgust(ing Behavior)


Wondering where disgusting behavior comes from (usually meaning a lack of civility and/or penchant for misdirected linguistic abuse, but also general grossness, like someone snorting snot at you during lap swim when they know you're there), I came up with this typology:

Sources of Disgusting Behavior

a) Nature - i.e., Some people are just disgusting and it's too unnatural for them to change.

b) Environmental Reflection - The world gives hell, and some people insist on reflecting it back without restraint for their own catharsis or lack of a 'filtery' or 'spongey' quality.

c) Psychological Warfare - This is pretty common. Get someone's head down for sadistic kicks or a dominant position.

Lest this list not appear exhaustive, art, for instance, or humor, can fit partially into multiple categories.


a resource for the next witnessing, like once I step outside.