The first time I saw my friend after he decided he was a woman, he said something to indicate he thought his old self had died. Thinking about that conversation later, it occurred to me that if my friend had "died" than whoever this new person was wasn't necessarily my friend.
But at the same time he is the same person, and he's not dead. Frankly, his death would be easier to come to terms with. It's confusing enough for me (because the situation is nonsensical) when it's just a close friend. I can't imagine how it would be for a father/son where the son thinks his old self "died" and yet there are still familial obligations on the part of the father.
Either way you play it ("son is dead"/"son is alive") isn't going to be entirely logically consistent, because you are playing a nonsensical game.
Isn't that what a lot scifi horror stories are about? Someone, or something, snatches people up, and uses their bodies as skin suits. They look (mostly) the same, but they're different, and not themselves, and are slowly trying to take over the world.
We laugh at cultists for following quacks, because in a functioning society, you'd be able to trust certified experts. But in clown world, even the richest govt contracter schemer got fooled by medical ((grifters)) and their useful woke idiots. The fauci politicians set medical institutions back like 2 generations and DEI will set them back another. Even if half the normies pushed back, the other half of half will still steal billions of tax bucks to trans kids, gobble up boosters, ozempic or whatever the next popular scam is.
It's better to play it off as dead because their religion/ideology has the fucking word for it, "deadnaming".
Your old friend isn't there - he is wearing the skinsuit of a woman. If you're a religious-fag, the only thing you can do at this point is to pray for their soul.
First a symbolic suicide for the illusion of escape from one's problems. By the time it becomes clear the those problems aren't going anywhere, and have if anything become unsolvable due to grievous bodily damage and devotion of one's life to a sinister cult, real suicide tends to follow.
The first time I saw my friend after he decided he was a woman, he said something to indicate he thought his old self had died. Thinking about that conversation later, it occurred to me that if my friend had "died" than whoever this new person was wasn't necessarily my friend.
But at the same time he is the same person, and he's not dead. Frankly, his death would be easier to come to terms with. It's confusing enough for me (because the situation is nonsensical) when it's just a close friend. I can't imagine how it would be for a father/son where the son thinks his old self "died" and yet there are still familial obligations on the part of the father.
Either way you play it ("son is dead"/"son is alive") isn't going to be entirely logically consistent, because you are playing a nonsensical game.
Isn't that what a lot scifi horror stories are about? Someone, or something, snatches people up, and uses their bodies as skin suits. They look (mostly) the same, but they're different, and not themselves, and are slowly trying to take over the world.
Maybe ancestral memory isn't just a Hyperborea meme.
In the past they sold sneak oil as an easy solution to all problems
Now they sell hormon replacements
I suspect it would have taken less effort for him to be an attractive-looking man than a weird-looking "woman"
I can say a lot of things about what he did, but it being an "easy solution" isn't among them.
It's an easy answer to the problem, outsourcing to someone else the thinking for yourself.
We laugh at cultists for following quacks, because in a functioning society, you'd be able to trust certified experts. But in clown world, even the richest govt contracter schemer got fooled by medical ((grifters)) and their useful woke idiots. The fauci politicians set medical institutions back like 2 generations and DEI will set them back another. Even if half the normies pushed back, the other half of half will still steal billions of tax bucks to trans kids, gobble up boosters, ozempic or whatever the next popular scam is.
It's better to play it off as dead because their religion/ideology has the fucking word for it, "deadnaming".
Your old friend isn't there - he is wearing the skinsuit of a woman. If you're a religious-fag, the only thing you can do at this point is to pray for their soul.
First a symbolic suicide for the illusion of escape from one's problems. By the time it becomes clear the those problems aren't going anywhere, and have if anything become unsolvable due to grievous bodily damage and devotion of one's life to a sinister cult, real suicide tends to follow.