On Drinking Urine

I don't value blanket, unthinking "tolerance". As Marilyn Manson once sung "Love everybody is destroying the value of 'All hate has got me is nowhere.'"

"Tolerance" is often a mask for the game of social approval.

 If someone drinks their own piss, so what? It may not be my cup of tea, but it's their prerogative. I might be curious to learn something about the practice to increase my understanding about acquired tastes, biochemistry, and even the imbiber's state of mind and  reasons for doing it, but I have absolutely no need to give approval of it or validate it in any way.


If the same person broadcasts about his practice on a larger scale and people respond with disapproval, or even petty bullshit, they have no reason to claim that this is a case of intolerance. Their game fails when it's pointed out that the lack of other people's approval in no way prevents him from drinking his favorite drink -- they don't want their drink, they want social approval.

Sometimes "tolerance" is associated with an "open mind". A mind is open only to the degree it will consider ideas. This correlates with the personality trait "openness". I'm open to the idea that someone drinks their own urine, but I have no compulsion to drink urine myself  to prove that I have an "open mind."

 The compulsion to prove anything to anyone is the compulsion for social approval.  People who play this game will claim to have tried all kinds of bizarre things only to prove they have an open mind. When they say "I drank a gallon of piss today!" they're really saying "Look at me and my awesome open mind!" Sadly, there are people out there who will see this and automatically think that the fact that they don't drink urine is evidence that something is wrong with them because their mind is too closed to drink urine.

You know how insane that is? To think there's something wrong with you because you don't drink urine? Heh. :) Drinking urine opens your mind about as much as sticking feathers up your butt makes you a chicken.

What allows this game to be played is an outer locus. Someone with an outer locus only sees themselves as they believe other people see them. They're what Ayn Rand called the "Second Handers" and the process is what the Fourth Way calls "internal considering." They rely on other people's standards to judge themselves, thus the standard for an open mind is someone else's standard of an open mind.

Someone with an inner locus determines their own standards, which may or may not include the drinking of urine, but certainly doesn't have to just because someone offered them a cup. Someone with an inner locus can have an open mind, and if they do, they also know that they're interested in things for their own reasons.

The "open mind" game of social approval is revealed when someone says "Thanks, but I'm not really interested." If someone can't respect you as an individual capable of making their own decisions, there is no reason to "tolerate" them beyond civic politeness. In my opinion, there's every reason to ditch them as dead weight as soon as possible.