as small as a world and as large as alone

6:13pm August 3, 2015

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

I see, often, people use the idea of “people are being hurt by this” as a means of shutting down conversations

Sometimes it’s true, like when you’re trying to explain why slurs are bad.

Other times, it’s not. It’s just someone trying to throw the weight of “innocents being HARMED” into their campaign to silence you.

And in some cases, it’s not your job to avoid “hurting” someone, when they’ve deliberately laid out a carpet of raw nerves all over your boundaries.

Having your own thoughts even though it “hurts” other people is your right, and they need to get their carpet of raw nerves off your thoughts.

Talking about your thoughts and feelings, in your own space, without trying to force other people to accept them as true, is your right, and it’s the height of irony for people to come into YOUR space and tell you you can’t, because you’re “harming others.”

People’s raw nerves don’t belong in your space. Don’t let them grow there.

Yes, also related to the thing I’m going to write about eventually.

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