I don’t understand how so many people seem to understand the concept just fine. It sounds oddly complicated to me. The concept to me sounds like collectively concluded delusion or like if society collectively concludes something to be objectively real, that means it’s objectively real. Maybe I’m not understanding correctly?
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It’s bad manners to fart loudly in a restaurant. That’s true but not in the same sense that 2 + 2 = 4 is true.
2 + 2 = 4 is a mathematical fact. It cannot be changed even if a majority of people think 2 + 2 = 5. It’s true all by itself, whether or not we agree.
Farting at a restaurant (hey, you did say explain it like you’re five, right?) is only rude because we agree it is. There’s nothing wrong with farting. Nobody is ashamed to fart when they’re eating alone. But it is a social construct that we should act embarrassed when farting aloud in a restaurant.
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