• 10A@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Have you never heard “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me”? It’s preschool 101. Speech is never an act of violence.

    Additionally, nobody is debating anyone’s right to exist.

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      1 year ago

      Says the person who’s never heard their own right to exist or the rights of their loved ones called into question publicly.

      You don’t have the right to “debate” other people’s equal rights.

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        1 year ago

        Except really, nobody’s ever debating anyone’s right to exist. That’s absurd.

        Consider this: If a mass murderer was captured and imprisoned, he could claim that the justice system opposes his right to exist. The trouble with that is he’d be completely incorrect. The justice system opposes his behavior of murder. No matter how much he believes his very existence is inextricably bound to his behavior of murder, the reality is he murders by choice, and it is that intentional action which the justice system opposes.

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            1 year ago

            Sure, and I could have chosen any other action, but I chose murder because it’s not contentious to express a disapproval of it.

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              1 year ago

              Did it ever occur to you that it’s “contentious” to express “disapproval” of trans people existing because…there’s nothing WRONG with trans people existing?

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                1 year ago

                Hmm, sounds like you missed my entire point. Nobody objects to any people existing. Some people object to particular behaviors.