It's just a breast and the more this is done the less people will care about it.
How do you know. What is this thread about. Isn't it about how we see the world all to easily through our hot button issues, through moral traditions, traditional bigotries, religiously inculcated notions and patterns of belief rooted in irrational inculcated taboos of all manner we are not even conscious cause us to believe any feeling we have about anything to be the absolute truth. We are hard wired and brilliant pattern detectors and if certain patterns evoke disgust, we fixate on them, we see them everywhere and react negatively, even violently to their presence, and we see them first before we see anything else. You say that a breast is just a breast and that's all very well except I have spent more time than I could ever calculate thinking dreaming and lusting after them, and all that despite the fact I'm a leg man. So no, a breast is a bit more than a breast to me because I still have one hand on the vine, quite little-evolved and primitive.
So let's consider the possibility that why a breast isn't just a breast in modern American society is because we are a society full of people situated along a wide spectrum of exposure to the sexual revolution. We have people who are very uptight and people who are very loose, some people who are extremely modest and some people quite exhibitionist.
So the question becomes, in a restaurant situation where people of different attitudes toward public nursing gather, what kinds of rules should pertain. Your position is that if a woman wants to nurse openly that is her right and everybody else be damned. That's not going to bother me but does it then become OK for me to pull up a chair somewhere close by and stare? Wouldn't that be rather offensive and disquieting? In all of these things it seems to me that the moral thing to do is to consider ones own needs, balanced against the needs of others and how much effort it would take and how justified would it be to have to undertake that effort, to to satisfy the widest number of people. In a society like ours, if I were a woman, I would make every effort reasonable to cover up, but in Tahiti, I would perhaps feel less constrained. I can't say that for sure because I don't know modern Tahiti culture.
In shout, it seems to me that a nursing mother should really be in control of what the rules are and if that were me, I would take into account how others will react. It doesn't have to control the situation but should be a part of the calculation, in my opinion.
So, are we, us young nursing mothers, on a campaign to advance public nursing, or is it preferable to accommodate to less advanced social norms and allow society to change of its own.
This is a moral question anybody who wishes to push his or her own truth with conscience must face. Is it proper to expose yourself with abandon for the sake of pushing social evolution. After all, we will all be better off if breasts were just breasts, right? So if some take offense, tough shit right? Uptight people just go through life accusing others of assaulting what are their own uptight stupid notions of truth, right?
But what if the real intention behind a social justice warrior or any kind of moral crusader is to pay back others, to make them suffer their own uprightness for pain such people long ago gave us? How do you know, when you push your own view of the world on others, in the name of making somebody else better, that you do it out of real concern for the darkness they live in and for the general advance society would experience with new knowledge, or if in fact it's not just all about personal vengeance. How do you know you yourself are not just another version of up-tight? Well, if nothing else, one would not necessarily exclude the other I would think.
At any rate, in my opinion, this is something one must constantly do ones best to try to evaluate.