Do you think people can get used to anything if given enough time?

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Do you think it's a rule that, if given enough time, experiences doing it and exposure to it, people can get used to anything?

I'm not talking about simply desensitization from merely seeing it, I mean actually participating hands on in a previously taboo or what you might consider disgusting acts. For example, anything from performing medical procedures, to maybe stripping (exotic dancing), to murder, to butchering animals, and so on. Something you wouldn't normally do and would find hard if not impossible to bring yourself to do for the first time.

Please comment!!

Yes, I believe people can get used to anything if given time. 65
No, I don't think it's possible. 10
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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    It depends if someone considered it wrong or strange in the first place. If you grew up thinking murder was normal then you would always think it was normal but knowing that its wrong first might stop you from ever being used to it.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Yes people get used to things. We adapt BUT not to everything. So I guess it's a yes and no from me.

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  • Living4Him
    12 years ago

    Yeah..I think some things take longer to adapt than others though. Some things might even take years but I think that eventually anyone CAN adapt to anything. It doesnt mean they will like it though...they will just get used to it.

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  • Rhuarc
    12 years ago

    I don't think any SANE person can get used to fascism, communism, or anything of the like.

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    • brittal
      12 years ago

      I disagree. What about Nazi soldiers? They had families, cried when people they loved died, and felt bad for themselves. I'm sure a lot became selfish assholes, but the point is they didn't start out that way. They became that way over time as social cues around them told them that Jews weren't people and so it was okay to torture, starve, and humiliate them.

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  • dappled
    12 years ago

    Given time AND circumstance, virtually anything, yes. Even things too horrific or perverse to even enter your imagination yet.

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