8:21am July 10, 2014

Saying this will bother someone somewhere, but I’ll say it anyway.

amorpha-system:

“BECAUSE SOMEONE MIGHT MISUSE IT!” is a completely shitty reason for forcing people to thought-police themselves, to never even think about, explore, or investigate certain aspects of their identity, their life, their family, and/or their most fundamental experiences of the world— things that, in and of themselves, are completely harmless the vast majority of the time.

The fact that a minority of people have misused certain things, even if the misusers have been vocal, even if they have done concrete and undeniable harm, is still not a good enough reason to bind people’s minds in chains and cut them off from avenues of thought that could be anything from useful to profoundly and positively life-transforming.

-Tamsin

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