2011-05-03, 10:28 PM
Kunagisa Wrote:I come from a culture that drinks cow blood. I grow up drinking cow blood. There was never a point in my life where I thought cow blood was bad.
Someone comes to my town. They see me drink cow blood.
"How can you drink that?"
"I don't know what you mean, it's delicious."
"But there are so many things wrong with drinking cow blood!"
"I don't know what you're talking about. Give it a try and see what you think."
The person tries it, and, as expected, still does not like nor understand how this person can like the cow blood.
"It's horrible."
"It's delicious."
"Everyone from where I'm from thinks it's horrible, so it's an absolute."
"Well everyone here thinks it's delicious, so it's an absolute."
Completely missing the point of what I'm saying. You're talking about preference. If you want to know whether cow blood is good or bad you'd have to look at how a body reacts to it. If it contains any nutrients and won't make you ill then it could easily be considered good, in spite of it seeming gross, which is preference.
Just as with music, if someone is off key or pitchy (yo dawg!) then they are a bad singer. If someone puts together a bunch of unpleasant sounds then it is bad music. It may still be music by definition, but it's not good music. Someone could still easily enjoy a pitchy voice or a bunch of banging symbols but that doesn't make it good.