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What do you think it means to become nicer to weirdos, other than whatever counted as weird becoming more socially acceptable?
by TulliusCicero 6y ago
What do you think it means to become nicer to weirdos, other than whatever counted as weird becoming more socially acceptable?
- luckylion 6y agoNot having laws against being weird, not reaching to therapy for weirdness, not considering weirdness pathological, not assigning moral values to being weird or not weird. Moving "who is weird" around doesn't do anything. If you keep me locked up in your basement and torture me and, by some luck, I overpower you and in turn lock you up and torture you, there isn't really any less locking-up-and-torturing, it's just that somebody else is receiving it.
- TulliusCicero 6y ago> Not having laws against being weird Well, being gay is legally much more accepted now. Does that count as progress? Or does it not count, because most people don't consider being gay "weird" anymore, as it's become more acceptable? That's what I'm saying: whether you still call being gay "weird" and we've become more accepting, or it's just more accepted because it's no longer considered weird, that's still the same progress.
- luckylion 6y agoIt does for gay people, absolutely. Much like it would be progress for me to be released from your cellar. But if we just replace me with you or somebody else, there's still somebody going to be locked in the cellar. At the margins (the actual margins, not the "I'm marginalized mimimi") of society where the weird people are. And I don't think those margins are getting smaller, or the people inhabiting them are treated better. It's just different people that are the outsiders now, and being gay doesn't necessarily put you there (depends on your location, though).
- TulliusCicero 6y agoHmm, I'm not so sure, though honestly I have zero clue how one would objectively check for tolerance of weirdness in general.