are you really open-minded ?

Question

I know people like to say they are open-minded, it sounds good doesn't it?
I always find people saying they're open-minded then they are shocked at certain things and proceed to judge like "oh that isn't right what they do" or "what a freak/weirdo"

Here's an example: The idea that drinking your own urine or putting it on cuts can benefit your health. Fine if you think it's gross. I don't exactly see it as something pleasant but to me it's no big deal if that's what someone wants to do, and who's to say it doesn't work? It's something to consider.

There are even more controversial ones, 1 involves pedophilia. I'm not going to attempt to explain it because some people on here are just far too immature to grasp what the idea suggests and will immediately write OMGS WRONG!11 sick mofo!!
When I first heard the theory I didn't freak out. I don't condone certain things or even agree with them but I can see where they're coming from.

What is open-mindedness really? Are you truely? Am I..hmm

well pardon me for spelling "truly" wong.
I usually spell very well. I am very tired. It's not that big a deal compared to some words.
I don't need to use the spellchecker as I hardly ever spell wrong but thats why some little mistakes get through every now and then. Would you rather people relied on the spellchecker in order to feign intelligence and please others?
I don't suppose anyone would be so open-minded as to consider that it was a one-off mistake but go as far as to make a point of mentioning it like it's a big deal and somehow related to anything in the Q?
For the record I know how to spell it. I spelled it wrong earlier and caught it before I pressed send. I also spelled violent as voilent about 5 times in a row and wondered why it looked weird (lol) Tisk! What would you have said about that?

I am tru(-e)ly sleep deprived. Please forgive me.

also not being against people of certain races isn't open-minded...it's kind of a given.

That would be called not being racist or prejudiced towards others.
Things people can't control and things which don't make them any different from other humans. We are not talking about opinions and ways they lead their life with SKIN COLOUR. BIG difference.

Answer 1

Open mindedness is a very personal thing. One person decides how much he/she will accept/tolerate from others. I call myself open minded because i live by my motto, basically live and let live! You mention people drinking their own urine ... Well they can well do it as much as they like just as long as they don't expect me to follow suit! You mention peadophiles and have to realise that some people may well have been abused or their children have in which case such people would never accept peadophiles, let alone tolerate them!

I think you'll find that most people's degrees of tolerance/acceptance vary depending on their upbringing, primary socialisation, life circumstances. Picture yourself coming home after a bad at work, a really sore head to hear your kids playing rave music on full blast ... You wouldn't tolerate it if, at other times, you might actually enjoy it!

I am a registered mental health nurse and have worked with categories of people the vast majority of us would never wish to associate with under normal circumstances, some of the patients included peadophilesand worse ... As a nurse it was my duty to treat anyone the same, regardless of what they had done (Be it alleged pending trial or proven) And i did it because it was what i did! This doesn't mean to say that i approved of what they had done (Alleged to have done) because other patients were in the ward following crimes perpetrated against them ... Same crimes these people were in for a psychiatric assessment! But it didn't reflect on my care and the way i spoke to them.

My interpretation of open mindedness is that, and no matter how our own perception/values affect our judgement ... Not to let it show and treat people the same if privately we may feel that we do not condone what a person did!

Answer 2

i think of it relies upon on the two the circumstances and the guy in touch regardless of if one is open or closed minded. case in point there could nicely be some very closed minded human beings, nicely i understand some, who're very tolerant (almost to the factor of open mindedness, you will possibly think of), basically because of the fact of who the different individual is. this is one occasion of the place an exception to the guideline applies. yet for the main area you choose the two basically like warm and chilly interior the actual realm of thermodynamics. For without the interplay between warm and chilly or opposites, existence might grow to be stagnant and entropy. that does no longer be a real mirrored photograph on existence. So interior the top I do renowned the life of the two contraptions of minds. And on the comparable time be conscious the exceptions and the organic effect of the interplay that happens between them. Society as an entire does flow forward. that's what i think of.

Answer 3

Really, if you're not doing anything that hurts anyone else, then what's the big deal? That's pretty much my only judgement call. (And besides, I do stuff I don't even talk about on here because nobody would be able to handle it. Really. It doesn't hurt anyone else and only involves me, but it would freak people out.)

Answer 4

open-mindedness is completely objective as is beauty. to some people having an open mind is not judging people based on race or sexual orientation. to others, i suppose an open mind could be accepting someone who drinks and/or bathes in their own urine. who knows?


ps too many people spell truly wrong. you learn something new every day. so there you go

Answer 5

since u haven't explained the theory, how open-minded i can b normally stops b4 abnormal.
pedophiles r NOT NORMAL.
i've heard all the excuses, reasons and stalling that they try.
it makes no difference.
they can't b cured.
won't change and only get bolder as they become wiser with age.
using more and more disgusting tactics 2 achieve their objective.
damaging a child, who will given a 50/50 chance, they themselves go on 2 abuse children!
there's only 1 answer
up against the wall, shoot them and let god sort it out.

Answer 6

i am but 90% of pepole are not they all are agenst somthing like stem cell reserch