That's all fine, I was just trying to answer the initial question: is it truly a cock block if the dude isn't interested in someone in the first place. And I'm answering that I think yeah, if someone wants to fuck in general, but refuses to even pursue potential partners because they have become unable to be aroused by anything but the sign and nothing real, then yeah, that's like def a self cock block, or at least capitalism fucking people up in a way that makes it hard for them to do anything humanly normal, which is certainly also true. You can disagree with me, I just thought it was an interesting question to try and look at.
in my cultural context a cock block is when somebody is trying to hook up with someone and a third party (or, more loosely, event etc e.g. "I was going to go see your dad but that tornado warning cock blocked me") and I think that trying after someone specific in the first place is a necessary component in a way that "health class birth videos traumatized me so i'm not interested in hooking up with your mom" wouldn't qualify because the initial interest was never there.
if your understanding of the term is different then this has been an uninteresting linguistic disagreement instead of a mildly interesting philosophy thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's all fine, I was just trying to answer the initial question: is it truly a cock block if the dude isn't interested in someone in the first place. And I'm answering that I think yeah, if someone wants to fuck in general, but refuses to even pursue potential partners because they have become unable to be aroused by anything but the sign and nothing real, then yeah, that's like def a self cock block, or at least capitalism fucking people up in a way that makes it hard for them to do anything humanly normal, which is certainly also true. You can disagree with me, I just thought it was an interesting question to try and look at.
in my cultural context a cock block is when somebody is trying to hook up with someone and a third party (or, more loosely, event etc e.g. "I was going to go see your dad but that tornado warning cock blocked me") and I think that trying after someone specific in the first place is a necessary component in a way that "health class birth videos traumatized me so i'm not interested in hooking up with your mom" wouldn't qualify because the initial interest was never there.
if your understanding of the term is different then this has been an uninteresting linguistic disagreement instead of a mildly interesting philosophy thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯