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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6781392" data-attributes="member: 177">This is not necessarily much of an argument against it.  Many preferences - in food, in literature, in movies and TV, color of clothes to wear, in all sorts of things, are likely learned behaviors.Yeah.  So, an andecdote:  I have a friend who sometimes plays in my games.  He, like everyone, has food preferences.  For one, he hates cheese.  He doesn't have an allergy, nor is he lactose intolerant, or any similar biological issue with it.  He simply dislikes it, in any form.  There is no flavor or texture of cheese that appeals to him.  When he's been over over to my house for dinner, more than once, he's taken from a dish, eaten it, and said it was wonderful, complimenting the dish.  And then been told that it contains a considerable amount of cheese - and his opinion of the dish has retroactive changed to him not liking it much at all.This is common in humans.  Many of our "reasons" are just rationalizations for emotional reactions, not actually root causes.  My friend has an emotional reaction to the idea of cheese.  If the idea of cheese, however, is not in his mind, he has no issue with the actuality of cheese.  So, I'm just saying that preferences need not be written in stone for all time, and that occasionally challenging the supremacy of accepted preferences is a good thing.  We should challenge assumptions - INCLUDING OUR OWN.  That seems more a statement than a question.I'm saying nothing about brain damage, at least no more than afflicts humans in general (myself included).  We are very good at misleading ourselves, and holding onto positions long after rational issues have been addressed.  I do not know it is happening with anyone in this thread, of course.  But when we start considering unnamed masses collectively, these effects should also be considered.</blockquote>

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