On social media, occasionally you will see people post such things such as "if you believe X, unfriend me". Sometimes it's just blowing off steam, but how do you react?
Here's what provoked this: One person I used to be friends with posted a long rant about if you believe any sorts of things, unfriend me, but the main thing was if you oppose homosexuality. S/he (I don't even know how to identify the person, considering one of the stipulations was if you identify them by their biological gender) said that if you believed any of these things, you were genuinely putting their life in danger because they were not in a safe place. (I'm not going to argue with somebody so deeply mentally ill and who has gone through such a nightmarishly abusive upbringing, but I have a hard time understanding that, even if somebody genuinely does struggle so deeply.)
Here's what provoked this: One person I used to be friends with posted a long rant about if you believe any sorts of things, unfriend me, but the main thing was if you oppose homosexuality. S/he (I don't even know how to identify the person, considering one of the stipulations was if you identify them by their biological gender) said that if you believed any of these things, you were genuinely putting their life in danger because they were not in a safe place. (I'm not going to argue with somebody so deeply mentally ill and who has gone through such a nightmarishly abusive upbringing, but I have a hard time understanding that, even if somebody genuinely does struggle so deeply.)
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