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I'm fond of city states and secession in principle, but think things like Sealand and a few other "microstates" are just silly, missing the point, in much the same way as this "microsexuality" idea
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I think it's slowly leading people to a deeper, more functional understanding of human individuality, which is something a lot of people pay lip service to but many don't really appreciate.
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I think it's subverting any deep or functional concept of human individuality, by treating it as a matter of simply not having specific enough categories (anyone wanting to be this precise about their sexual preferences would do better to explain them directly than to label them)
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Well I think that last part is right, but I think creating infinite microsexualities is a way of explaining that truth to people with an object lesson. Plus, making flags and neologisms is fun as hell. And what's the harm?
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I worry it will have the opposite effect...certainly it's fun to make up words and flags, like playing D&D etc, but you're kind of an asshole if you expect the world to care about your D&D character, and treat your game like it's real life. Not harmful, just asinine
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But isn't that what individualism is really about? Expecting society to treat you as a unique individual rather than just another statistic, or cog in the machine?
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No! It is about being yourself, regardless of societal recognition--what kind of individual needs the acknowledgement of society to be himself? And how does establishing a statistical category for you (which you presumably share with others) make you less of a statistic?
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It's like trying to show how unique you are by telling people what town you grew up in--something which ipso facto lumps you in with everyone else in that town. If I choose to get more specific, say, my street, the problem still stands
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Why is it dumb? Why is it beyond parody?
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