On this page, you will find some information about my ethics. I set this page up because it has been made PAINFULLY clear to me that meeting new people is much easier when my ethical stances are clarified before I begin talking to them. It negates the potential for uncomfortable disagreements in the future, and dissuades people from interacting with me if they disagree with me and do not wish to consider what I have to say.Of course, if you find any of these positions to be misguided or a result of misunderstanding, feel free to reach out to me so we can discuss them and perhaps come to a consensus. I am open to the possibility that I am mistaken, and I want to take every opportunity that I can to grow as a person. This is a 3 item list, with some sub-items, so it isn’t very long. My tone may seem aggressive at times, and for that I apologize. These topics are very important to me and have a huge impact on people’s lives.
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1. Discrimination and the unnecessary/illogical ranking of different types of people is bad. No exceptions. I will spell this out clearly: this includes discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, gender identity, disability, and species.I’m going to stress the last one, as it seems to be the most commonly contested. Yes, discrimination based on species is bad. Any sentient being is a person, regardless of appearance, intelligence, or whatever else you can think of that differentiates a human from a nonhuman. I don’t care if we’re talking about monkeys, or cows, or dogs, or snakes, or spiders, or fish, or aphids. These creatures, no matter how different or simplistic in comparison to a human’s, have inner lives, and experience emotions.They are people. And no, it is not ok to eat people.
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2. Sexualization of people is bad. It doesn’t matter if a person is present in the room, behind a screen, not directly interacting with anyone, or even just a representation/idea of a person/a person’s body.It isn’t ok to look at someone and only see their body, or look at them and think about the ways that they could be sexually gratifying to someone else. It isn’t ok to see people this way, or even conceptualize any idea of a person in this way. It is sick. Reducing people to objects, in any capacity, is sick. Using a person’s body for gratification is bad, in any and every form. This includes things like p*rn, er*tic content in general, sex work, etc. People are sentient beings. They are not objects of sexual pleasure. Engaging with these kinds of content and activities enforces the idea that they are.
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3. Any action or expression that expresses support for or neutrality/apathy toward harmful ideologies is bad. Obviously, supporting harmful ideas makes a person complicit in their effects, but so does expressing apathy about them. This includes distasteful “jokes”.If harmful views are not actively challenged, they are given room to fester and grow. I feel like this is most common with jokes about subjects with nothing funny about them. Deriving comedy from a serious topic undermines what makes it serious, and says, “This isn’t something to be taken seriously, the negative aspects of this subject should not be actively condemned.” For example, if someone were to make a joke about/revolving around some kind of tragedy that left people dead, this person is saying that these deaths are not meaningful. In their eyes, this loss of life was not a big enough deal for them to really care, so it’s ok to laugh about it. This also means that whatever caused the deaths is also not a big deal, so it can/should be left alone to cause more tragedies. I hope it’s clear why this is bad.
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If you made it this far, thank you. These things really mean a lot to me, and it’s important that you know how I feel about these topics so that you may best choose how to interact with me. If you found the points I made agreeable, I would love to speak with you, and I feel like we could be good friends. If there were some things that you disagreed with, I would be happy to speak to you about them so that either you or I (or both of us) could reach a better understanding about whatever we’re discussing. If you disagreed with me and don’t really want to challenge your own views, I don’t know. Block me, I guess. These are moral baselines for me, and if you aren’t willing to have an open mind and at least consider what I have to say about them, I don’t really want to talk to you.Let me know if you read this, and if you’re interested in knowing more about me, you can go here and see my homepage thingy: (link)Thanks.