Just because its bigoted in one context doesn’t mean its bigoted in every context. Here’s an alternative contextual framing for you: “this is delusional” is also what sane people say to people experiencing delusions (such as, eg, the delusion that you are an animal, or that you are Jesus, or whatever)
The current context is that a layperson with no credentials or experience in psychopathology is handing out medical advice and being a bit of a jerk about it.
Your reducto ad absurdum has no effect because I respect divinekin and think their identities as deities are valid. It’s kind of a terrible argument because you haven’t explained what’s supposedly wrong about any of these identities, you’ve just pointed at them and gone “LOOK AT THAT! IT’S WEIRD!” and expected Me to agree with you. Pretty weak strategy tbh.
I’m not saying it’s weird. Im saying it’s delusional. I’m also not trying to be super rude or dismissive here, I’m just not trying to affirm any delusions, because that can be dangerous (see, for example, ChatGTP, and how its tendency to validate everything someone says can cause a mental health crisis in some users).
Here’s my thinking: but you agree that you are biologically not an animal. And you must agree that you have the mind of a human (we are conversing in a human language, and using the internet, which requires abstract human reasoning to do). And you have the body of a human (you seem to admit as much). So there’s a human mind in a human body. So what’s left? Isn’t that enough to make you demonstrably human?
Denying someone’s identity can also be very dangerous, because it can cause social identity dysphoria. I wasn’t taking the piss when I drew a simile between otherkin and trans people, I was being serious. If you manage to succeed in talking an otherkin out of their identity (which would make it by definition not a delusion, because delusions are beliefs not changed by evidence) all you would accomplish is worsening their emotional state and exacerbating any dysphoria-related mental conditions such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin
This is delusional
That’s what bigots say about trans people.
Just because its bigoted in one context doesn’t mean its bigoted in every context. Here’s an alternative contextual framing for you: “this is delusional” is also what sane people say to people experiencing delusions (such as, eg, the delusion that you are an animal, or that you are Jesus, or whatever)
The current context is that a layperson with no credentials or experience in psychopathology is handing out medical advice and being a bit of a jerk about it.
If someone said “I am literally God” would you need to be a trained psychiatrist to identify that as a delusion? You would not. Same goes here.
Your reducto ad absurdum has no effect because I respect divinekin and think their identities as deities are valid. It’s kind of a terrible argument because you haven’t explained what’s supposedly wrong about any of these identities, you’ve just pointed at them and gone “LOOK AT THAT! IT’S WEIRD!” and expected Me to agree with you. Pretty weak strategy tbh.
I’m not saying it’s weird. Im saying it’s delusional. I’m also not trying to be super rude or dismissive here, I’m just not trying to affirm any delusions, because that can be dangerous (see, for example, ChatGTP, and how its tendency to validate everything someone says can cause a mental health crisis in some users).
Here’s my thinking: but you agree that you are biologically not an animal. And you must agree that you have the mind of a human (we are conversing in a human language, and using the internet, which requires abstract human reasoning to do). And you have the body of a human (you seem to admit as much). So there’s a human mind in a human body. So what’s left? Isn’t that enough to make you demonstrably human?
Denying someone’s identity can also be very dangerous, because it can cause social identity dysphoria. I wasn’t taking the piss when I drew a simile between otherkin and trans people, I was being serious. If you manage to succeed in talking an otherkin out of their identity (which would make it by definition not a delusion, because delusions are beliefs not changed by evidence) all you would accomplish is worsening their emotional state and exacerbating any dysphoria-related mental conditions such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts.