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Topic	Saw a person on Twitter claiming they identify as bisexual and non-binary.
Kyuubi4269 06/18/19 10:27:06 AM #33:	_AdjI_ posted... most decent people would consider making people happy to be an adequate reason to do something if the cost doesn't outweigh that happiness It would make the general population happy if they defaulted to a preexisting word that describes them, but no, they've decided their head issues trump reality. People pandering to this self-centred idealism are just bleeding-hearts and we don't need that in a functional society. _AdjI_ posted... I'm sure you can manage to remember a new word on the off chance somebody specifically asks you to use it to describe them. That's really not that complicated. You already do it every time you meet somebody with a name you haven't heard before. I'm sure you could do a Nazi salute for a Nazi to make their day, it's no harder than a wave, but you don't want to do something that panders to a wrong frame of mind. _AdjI_ posted... Surely you're not equivocating the addition of one or two new words to modifying a third of an entire language and creating brand new conjugation rules. I'm equating an arbitrary linguistic modification to another. The fact that you don't see the connection suggests your main objection is the extent, but do you not see how allowing one mad wording opens the floodgate to a whole slew of others under the same reasoning? LGB became LGBTBBQ with the DCI-P3 spectrum flag on this same basis, opening the door to unfettered self-identification. _AdjI_ posted... Did you seriously just equivocate "please use gender-neutral pronouns to refer to me" with "kill everyone that isn't white"? Seriously? And here I thought your last analogy was absurd. Saying ridiculous things strange people might pick up is the same for both. --- Doctor Foxx posted... The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas. <cite>Kyuubi4269 posted [p:923483458] in Saw a pers... [t:77799288]...</cite> <quote><cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote>most decent people would consider making people happy to be an adequate reason to do something if the cost doesn't outweigh that happiness</quote> It would make the general population happy if they defaulted to a preexisting word that describes them, but no, they've decided their head issues trump reality. People pandering to this self-centred idealism are just bleeding-hearts and we don't need that in a functional society. <cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote>I'm sure you can manage to remember a new word on the off chance somebody specifically asks you to use it to describe them. That's really not that complicated. You already do it every time you meet somebody with a name you haven't heard before.</quote> I'm sure you could do a Nazi salute for a Nazi to make their day, it's no harder than a wave, but you don't want to do something that panders to a wrong frame of mind. <cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote>Surely you're not equivocating the addition of one or two new words to modifying a third of an entire language and creating brand new conjugation rules. </quote> I'm equating an arbitrary linguistic modification to another. The fact that you don't see the connection suggests your main objection is the extent, but do you not see how allowing one mad wording opens the floodgate to a whole slew of others under the same reasoning? LGB became LGBTBBQ with the DCI-P3 spectrum flag on this same basis, opening the door to unfettered self-identification. <cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote>Did you seriously just equivocate "please use gender-neutral pronouns to refer to me" with "kill everyone that isn't white"? Seriously? And here I thought your last analogy was absurd.</quote> Saying ridiculous things strange people might pick up is the same for both. --- Doctor Foxx posted... The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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