11-17-2025, 07:56 PM
(11-17-2025, 07:44 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: We should tell paranoid people that they ARE out to get you.
Denying the question doesn't answer it.
There certainly are mentally troubled folks in the world, some are made that way by others, some are born that way, some overcome it everyday, as best they can...
Why should those never be gay or trans or whatever social label you prefer really I suppose.
But to describe it as an illness might be both cruel to people who choose and feel natural with this, and enforcing a stigma that mentally ill people are shameful.
It's all kinds of presumptuous... doc.
But it's cool... we go with what we know.
You say they are sick.
I say maybe not.... and in fact,
mental illness seems only expressed as social currency,
not in the individual.
Now you use their plight to impinge on some people who "choose" wrongly.
I can't say they are right... I am not them.
They do make a lot of noise though right?
For such a "small" community...
Uh oh... It was the media all along... stoking your angst...
Just joshin' ....
OK OK I'll stop now....
I just like to joust with you buddy...
.. but I think you know that.
