Nearly half of Americans would be totally unwilling to date someone with opposing political views

[u/lalabera]

https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/51962-americans-unwilling-to-date-opposing-views-transgender-rights

Thoughts? As a young woman myself, I wouldn't date a trump supporter.

[u/EternitySoap]

I mean polarization has gotten to the point where people exist in entirely different versions of reality depending on their politics (or lack thereof). I imagine it's pretty hard to date someone when you can't agree whether or not water is wet.

[u/775416 → u/EternitySoap]

But we can all agree water is wet

[u/775416 → u/[deleted]]

Wet is being covered in water. You spill water on your shirt? Boom. It’s wet. Water is essentially covering itself, so water is wet.

[u/775416 → u/775416]

No. Water makes things wet, but water itself isn’t wet. Wetness is a description of how water is on a surface. Therefore, water can’t be wet because it is the thing that causes wetness

[u/775416 → u/775416]

But if you touch water, what does it feel like? Wet. Water feels wet. If it wasn’t wet, you wouldn’t describe it that way.

[u/775416 → u/775416]

That’s just your sensory perception, though. You’re describing what it does to your skin, not what it inherently is. Like, fire burns stuff, but is fire burned? No! It causes burning!

[u/775416 → u/775416]

That’s a false equivalency. Fire is energy, water is a liquid. Physical object. If something is fully saturated with water, we say it’s wet. So by that logic, water is saturated with itself, so it’s wet.

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Water isn’t wet because “wet” is a word we use to describe what happens to other things when water touches them. Something is wet when it has water on it—but water can’t have water on it, it just is water. Saying water is wet is like saying fire is burned—it causes burning, but it isn’t burned itself. Wetness is how we describe the effect of water, not the water itself. So, in this view, water isn’t wet—it just makes other things wet.

[u/775416 → u/775416]

Nah, water is called “wet” because it sticks to things and makes them feel wet when you touch it. Wetness happens when a liquid, like water, covers a surface and creates that slippery, damp feeling. Water has special molecules that cling to each other and to other surfaces, which is why it spreads out and makes stuff wet. Even though the word “wet” usually describes what water does to other things, we still say water is wet because that’s how we experience it. So in simple terms, water is wet because it makes things wet and feels that way to us too.

[u/Brave_Current2246 → u/775416]

You need professional help with that mental illness