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Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 hours agoDenying 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.
a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
It’s very difficult to talk someone out of a delusion, but not impossible (thats what things like cognitive behavioural therapy are for).
Can you answer my question tho? If you have a human mind and a human body then in what sene are you an animal? Maybe I will understand better if you explain this to me
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 hours ago
I’m an antirealist, and that means I think everything is subjective, and should be subjectively interpreted in a fair and just way that helps beings. Humanity is a social construct. Applying that construct to people who don’t want it applied to them causes hurt feelings. So I reconstructed My interpretation of the construct as follows: A human is a being who chooses to identify as human. Therefore, those who don’t want to be human, aren’t. And nothing of value is lost.
a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Is all species membership defined by self-identity? What about animals who do not have the mental capacity required to self identify. Like, is an oyster an oyster because it can self identify, or because it has an oyster genome?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 5 hours ago
In the absence of available self-identification, we can default back down to physical characteristics. But even those can fail. For example, scientists have declared that mules have no species.