kraftiekortie wrote:
What happened?
That's people for you....especially people who have "ego."
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Everyone has an ego and you can't measure the ego
The speaker has only one intended definition
The recipient takes the message an unlimited number of ways
All the ways of interpretation except one are misunderstandings
If you do not want to post on Wrong Planet, then do not post
Did someone hold a gun to your head or financially bribe you to post on Wrong Planet?
The problem is that sometimes the recipient misinterprets the message in ways the speaker did not imagine a priori
And sometimes the recipient takes action based on the misunderstood statement. That causes harm to the speaker or someone else. When harm otherwise would not have been done. If no misunderstanding were to have occurred
But yeah I get what you are trying to explain (I think)
The cost benefit analysis just is not worth it
What if someone understands what you said, then what?
Answer:. Whooptie do
It was that way when I started Gender Therapy in 2004 in homophobic San Diego
Precious lil "people" did not know what they did not know about being trans. And they thought they knew. And they had the nerve to tell me that it was "lying" for me to ask them to call me "he" instead of "she".
And they acted like I
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invented
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"lying
And that lying was the worst crime in the world
And they had never done
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anything wrong
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before
Certainly not "lying"
It also gets on my nerves when someone thinks I said something that I did not say
For example, "former" instead of "father"