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If you never smelled fresh air in your life, upon smelling it would it smell strange or unpleasant to you?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) September 28th, 2014

Reading the exploits of some saints on a missionary trip to sub-Saharan Africa they visited a slum that by US standards would not be fit for animals to live in. There were open trenches full of trash and human waste and there was not a single area that did not have a stench day and night. If you grew up in such an environment, never gone to any other place, when you finally did, seeing stench is all you ever smelled; do you think fresh air would smell strange or unpleasant to you?

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