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Originally Posted by Karanime  Then that necessitates discarding ALL labels, including ones like husband (after all, they could get divorced, right?) and all job titles. Humanity needs a sense of identity. That's why labels were created in the first place.
But that's not the important part. If a person calls themselves a darkworker... they're a darkworker. If we call them a darkworker, not necessarily so. We inherently do not have the right to label others, only ourselves.
And that's the point you were trying to make, right?
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More or less yes. But I'm not talking about discarding all labels, just the ones that are based on behaviour. And I'm not even talking about discarding behaviour-based labels either lol
What I'm saying is that behaviour-based labels always only apply to a person's actions in the present moment. And in some minds that reality gets lost. So some people will associate a person's behaviour with their personality traits and make it into something which it is not and then project that reality, consciously or not, towards that individual. That is how personalities are formed and egos "imprisoned" into mental boxes. I think on some level we crave these identities since they help us get a feeling of understanding on the world around us. We don't realize we're forming our own reality through these behaviours. And in the process we limit our scopes.
Labels based on social roles don't have the same impact since they're not based on a person's attitudes and behaviours. A husband is a husband regardless of what he or she does. But yeah people will limit their behaviours to fit the roles too. But at least on this level it's more often than not a conscious choice.
I like mental masturbation too if you hadn't noticed by now
