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Meanwhile my instincts are making me literally cringe just reading that... The same way I cringe when see or hear tell of foreign locations where meat is sold unrefrigerated on the street. Lukewarm meat feels wrong at a visceral level.
Agreed, though my post did say "normal body temperature", not room temperature. A human body at normal body temperature just seems like a person who's at least slightly alive or was very recently alive, not like a dead and rotting piece of meat.
I understand. I was going with Alicorn's description - and normal body temperature incidentally 'feels' a whole lot worse to me.
We're just talking about instinctive subjective reactions here but I note that one of the appealing things to me about your specific proposed explanation was that it didn't talk about temperature or bodies at all:
That sounds good to me. And to Alicorn it translated into imagery of room temperature and sleeping. The same translation that feels 'inviting' to Alicorn feels revolting to me. Perhaps your (Ata's) instincts are also somewhat different to mine in as much as 'normal body temperature' feels better than 'room temperature'.