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Insulting people for having a different opinion to yours is not a good look. No matter how much humanity has evolved when compared to previous generations, there are still big enough problems in the world that someone can rationally make that decision.
I'm not aware of having insulted anyone. I've come to learn in my life that some people are insulted by reality... that's sad. Reality doesn't change just because you feel insulted, it never apologizes, and it definitely doesn't make amends.
No. They can only irrationally make that decision. And it's not difficult to discern that truth... just open your eyes. Trauma, gluttony, there's always something right there at the surface pressuring that choice.
Really? Please say that line to anyone you know and after they're finished chuckling, as them what they think is so funny and perhaps they'll explain it better than I can.
You just sound like some guy who watched the "you're not wrong, Walter-- you're just an asshole" scene in The Big Lebowski and thought to yourself "Yeah, I'm Walter! He tells it like it is!"
i.e. saying "people who don't want kids are mentally ill" and then wondering why people would consider that to be an insulting statement.
I feel like you're probably more in love with yourself than your partner. Reply if you want but I'll just be blocking you anyway-- people like you creep me out.
It's like saying "people who want to force themselves to vomit after every meal are mentally ill" and then wondering why the bulimics consider that to be insulting?
They're bulimic. It's a mental illness. They probably do find it insulting, at least when they can work up the nerve to do it... it wasn't always that way. But wasn't it Oprah who had a bunch of the crackpots on her show where they were starting to claim eating disorders were a lifestyle choice?
Same thing here. If you get enough mentally ill people together in one place, they can convince themselves that their perceived numbers alone make them not mentally ill.
I can't tell if you're playing devil's advocate or one of the mentally ill, and I don't care nearly enough to read your comment carefully to try to figure it out.