I can't imagine how much pain my confusing the one form of insanity with the other might have caused Otherkin who might be reading this.
There's being pedantic and then there's just correcting someone when they're wrong. It's best to be corrected in a relatively friendly place like this than to go and refer to a freak who thinks he is an animal as a trans-humanist elsewhere and get laughed at for it.
I know I still laugh at my brother for thinking globalism is a synonym for being able to have trade and travel between different countries, and that anyone pushing back on it genuinely wants every country to be like 1700s Japan and close themselves off to the world.
It's best to be corrected in a relatively friendly place like this than to go and refer to a freak who thinks he is an animal as a trans-humanist elsewhere and get laughed at for it.
I suppose you're right.
Your reply has also led me to look into these differences.
Thanks for the motivation I needed to clarify these things in my mind.
I must shed this habit of becoming snarky when I'm properly contradicted or corrected. I blame online anonymity. It feeds my egotism.
No problem man trust me I get it. I am the exact same way sometimes. I honestly blame reddit. Years and years of dwelling in a place where the average user is borderline retarded, not to mention probably acting in bad faith, did a number on me mentally when it comes to interacting on the internet and I'm still shaking free from it.
There's being pedantic and then there's just correcting someone when they're wrong. It's best to be corrected in a relatively friendly place like this than to go and refer to a freak who thinks he is an animal as a trans-humanist elsewhere and get laughed at for it.
I know I still laugh at my brother for thinking globalism is a synonym for being able to have trade and travel between different countries, and that anyone pushing back on it genuinely wants every country to be like 1700s Japan and close themselves off to the world.
I suppose you're right.
Your reply has also led me to look into these differences.
Thanks for the motivation I needed to clarify these things in my mind.
I must shed this habit of becoming snarky when I'm properly contradicted or corrected. I blame online anonymity. It feeds my egotism.
No problem man trust me I get it. I am the exact same way sometimes. I honestly blame reddit. Years and years of dwelling in a place where the average user is borderline retarded, not to mention probably acting in bad faith, did a number on me mentally when it comes to interacting on the internet and I'm still shaking free from it.