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> If I told you to call me a King, would you do that? These other replies miss the mark. It's not that, "calling a commoner a king is inaccurate, whereas a bi

> If I told you to call me a King, would you do that? These other replies miss the mark. It's not that, "calling a commoner a king is inaccurate, whereas a biological male could accurately be called female". Because that just brings you full circle back to arguing over whether biological gender and gender "identity" can be separated. The more practical answer is that it doesn't hurt anything, and being a dick about it just makes you a dick. If you told me to address you as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, then I might privately harbor some doubts about your mental health. But I'd likely do it just to make you go away, m'lord. I would not, however, feel bound by any commands to defend The Wall or anything.

VLM 9y ago
A better, almost perfect analogy, is its a religious belief. Even more accurately its a religious belief where its sole purpose is to state group allegiance and declare one's holiness. Kind of like the right has global warming denialism, the left has transgender. The purpose of the talking point is to declare allegiance to a political group in public and count coup against those less politically fashionable. As such any declaration of disagreement benefits the believer, especially when the discussion happens in an echo chamber of true believers. "Its merely a test of faith" "I'm a better believer than you" "He's just a sinner going to hell" etc. Fundamentally the whole mind-virus can be blamed on Protestantism. When the priest (Catholic or, frankly, Pagan or most other religions) was the arbiter of holiness granted by authority, things were stable. Once holiness was granted to anyone in the general public willing to declare themselves holier than thou, that toxic mind-virus spread out of religion and into everything from climate to sexuality and gender. Generally speaking holiness is a weapon and if it slips out of control into anarchy a civilization is doomed to collapse.

VLM 9y ago

A better, almost perfect analogy, is its a religious belief. Even more accurately its a religious belief where its sole purpose is to state group allegiance and declare one's holiness. Kind of like the right has global warming denialism, the left has transgender. The purpose of the talking point is to declare allegiance to a political group in public and count coup against those less politically fashionable. As such any declaration of disagreement benefits the believer, especially when the discussion happens in an echo chamber of true believers. "Its merely a test of faith" "I'm a better believer than you" "He's just a sinner going to hell" etc. Fundamentally the whole mind-virus can be blamed on Protestantism. When the priest (Catholic or, frankly, Pagan or most other religions) was the arbiter of holiness granted by authority, things were stable. Once holiness was granted to anyone in the general public willing to declare themselves holier than thou, that toxic mind-virus spread out of religion and into everything from climate to sexuality and gender. Generally speaking holiness is a weapon and if it slips out of control into anarchy a civilization is doomed to collapse.