"What I like, dislike, love or hate, is none of your business." Thank you for your whole article behind that sentence, articulating just where I have been arriving in my own thinking. I've realised that one answer to "You can't say that anymore" is "According to who?" People are earnestly creating a noose to strangle themselves with.
If that helps, I've just come back from a week-long Italian holiday where I was expecting to eat like a pig and enjoy it all. I landed with a stinking cold that hasn't left me yet, and I can't smell or taste a single thing even if it lands on my nose and starts chewing on it. As something that started out as a joke, I asked people to describe to me the taste of what we were eating (a bit like you describe a view to a blind person). Oddly, I very much enjoyed seeing people engage with the game to help me experience a pleasure I was unable to have first hand. I had different expectations of this holiday, but all it took was to allow a little playfulness in the process and be undeterred in my intention to enjoy the food. There are very few objectively nasty things life sets aside for us. Largely, perception rules.
"What I like, dislike, love or hate, is none of your business." Thank you for your whole article behind that sentence, articulating just where I have been arriving in my own thinking. I've realised that one answer to "You can't say that anymore" is "According to who?" People are earnestly creating a noose to strangle themselves with.
If that helps, I've just come back from a week-long Italian holiday where I was expecting to eat like a pig and enjoy it all. I landed with a stinking cold that hasn't left me yet, and I can't smell or taste a single thing even if it lands on my nose and starts chewing on it. As something that started out as a joke, I asked people to describe to me the taste of what we were eating (a bit like you describe a view to a blind person). Oddly, I very much enjoyed seeing people engage with the game to help me experience a pleasure I was unable to have first hand. I had different expectations of this holiday, but all it took was to allow a little playfulness in the process and be undeterred in my intention to enjoy the food. There are very few objectively nasty things life sets aside for us. Largely, perception rules.