I was in another thread when I realized I had a topic that I think would be great to have here.
The question is ultimately this: by denormalizing everything, by assigning an 'ism' to almost any human behavior (starting from different modes of sexuality - even modes within modes - and working outward to all kinds of other things) that we may essentially cause a 'heat death' for cohesive society as we know it?
I'm not meaning to be so forboding as to suggest that it would cause anarchy, collapse, or even ice cold indifference to fellow human beings, but it seems like conceptually exploding the normal curve and deleting the middle just by assigning everyone too many isms for such a thing to exist anymore - essentially we're just shifting goalposts, changing definitions, but at the same time these are remarkably powerful definitions we're working with.
What do you think are the benefits? What do you think are the perils? Would the perils outweigh the benefits in your opinion or would the benefits outweigh the perils?
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