ApocalypticRomantic666

I had a friend who had started to question their identity, who unfortunately passed before they could ever decide who they even were. And now in death I don't even know how to refer to them, because I know that they never even got to understand for themselves. I don't know where to put this story i just need to get it off of my chest, because they weren't out to very many people and I can't talk about it in life often. But please to anyone reading this do not die wondering.

romanticizing the unhealthiest and most fucked up fictional relationships and characters because i have free will and it’s fun

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

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