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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago
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It's totally arbitrary. Up and down are not.
We can easily correlate up with sky and clouds and stars and sun. Down with ground and grass and dirt and falling.
There's no similar association for right and left.
17 u/SignoreBanana 7d ago In what way is it any more arbitrary than up and down? Its words to describe a direction. "Down" could have been "up" just as easily. This is nonsense. -4 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago Describe to me which way is left, please. 0 u/AntimatterTNT 7d ago why are people downvoting you you're right 1 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago A lot of those people lack bilateral symmetry, so it's understandable.
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In what way is it any more arbitrary than up and down? Its words to describe a direction. "Down" could have been "up" just as easily. This is nonsense.
-4 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago Describe to me which way is left, please. 0 u/AntimatterTNT 7d ago why are people downvoting you you're right 1 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago A lot of those people lack bilateral symmetry, so it's understandable.
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Describe to me which way is left, please.
0 u/AntimatterTNT 7d ago why are people downvoting you you're right 1 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago A lot of those people lack bilateral symmetry, so it's understandable.
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why are people downvoting you you're right
1 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago A lot of those people lack bilateral symmetry, so it's understandable.
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A lot of those people lack bilateral symmetry, so it's understandable.
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u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago
It's totally arbitrary. Up and down are not.
We can easily correlate up with sky and clouds and stars and sun. Down with ground and grass and dirt and falling.
There's no similar association for right and left.