Family Is Your Trigger

[freakofnurture]

@Maddog: Maybe it's a German saying (I'm German); though bullsh*t tends to be international ô.o

 

[PTSD sufferer]

Now all I have to do is come up with an equivalent scientific and/or philosophical response to the statement I seem to hear all too often about "family being the most precious thing in the world".

Any thoughts? Creative talents? If I could arm myself with something as witty and indisputable as this, I could go around shooting ignorant statements out of the sky like ducksin duck season.

Maddog

Hi Maddog,

It was a variation on the saying 'the most important thing in life is your health'. This makes sense because without health you don't have life.

So someone decided to state what the most 'precious' thing is....I guess I tend to start with definitions then I move onto the facts...

'Precious' things are most commonly associated with a high price or value and rarity. Other definitions have to do with having a 'moral quality'. Being 'precious about something' is about giving it importance.

The phase will only make logical sense when we talking about 'good' family and 'good morals' giving family importance...i.e. 'the most precious thing in the world is a good family'.

- There are more families than there are those without family and therefore it is rare not to have a family

- 80% of families are dysfunctional and being dysfunctional does not make something of value

...and we start working through ideas from there...