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Language always has been and always will be a nebulous concept shaped by its cultural and regional usage. Words will drastically change meaning based simply on their inflection and arbitrarily over time for little to no reason other than people start using it differently for seemingly no reason. The only time you can ever dive into "concrete" definitions is in the sciences where there are entire jobs that set about to create absolute meanings for words but even that is its own can of worms especially when a bunch of morons dip their hands into the pie like with how modern science has decoupled sex and gender so they are no longer synonymous. Its not "rewriting scientific history" its just changing the knowledge base based on new concepts we have grown to understand better over the 60 year old texts a bunch of bible thumpers keep quoting to justify their bigotry. If we never "rewrote scientific history" we would still be quoting the old greek philosophers and the bible about how the sun orbits the earth because changing what we already "know" is evil and wrong.
The problem is that the stigma society places on many things is too heavy a cross to bear and it is a sad thing to see. Also any "professional" that breaks patient confidentiality should no longer be a professional.
And this entire story right here is exactly the kind of points i was trying to make in a lot of ways and points out one of the major flaws with the whole situation as a whole. Currently there is such a stigma around the whole thing that any and all discussions about it in any form leads to major problems. I will argue till im blue in the face that SOME stigma is a good thing and should be encouraged TO A DEGREE but there also needs to be enough compassion and understanding so that the people affected by living under that stigma can still exist in society. There shouldnt be any guilt or punishment for someone seeking help for basically anything. I will also be the first to say that being attracted to actual children is absolutely something that should not happen and should cause someone to feel shame but to overtly punish someone for something they have little to no control over that hasnt lead to harm to anyone is a bridge way too far. It sickens me more to know that people who deal with this are actively persecuted than to know that they exist which i believe is the only truly sane position to have on the subject. This is reality though and much of the reason i was so set on saying that people need to own up to themselves and police themselves is BECAUSE of situations like this. Sometimes you cant be open and sometimes you have to hide things for your own safety which is why knowing your own limits and keeping yourself out of trouble and out of the spotlight is the #1 priority.
The problem is that the stigma society places on many things is too heavy a cross to bear and it is a sad thing to see. Also any "professional" that breaks patient confidentiality should no longer be a professional.
