I\u2019m still a no-body-shaming absolutist, even now, in 2025.\u00a0 People should not ridicule Donald Trump\u2019s hair, or body weight, for example.\u00a0 And this is less about wanting to avoid hurting someone\u2019s feelings, and more about never wanting to make any claim of ownership, not even a glancing claim of ownership, over anyone.\u00a0 I do not get to make unwelcome comments about anyone\u2019s body, and this is true if I judge that person to be of high character, and also true if I\u2019m tempted to judge that person negatively.\u00a0 I do not own any part of any other person.\u00a0 I do not own their internal states, or their body.\u00a0 I do not get to speculate into others\u2019 internal states, as that too closely resembles a claim of ownership.\u00a0 I do not get to tell Barack Obama whether he is or isn\u2019t a Christian.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even get to know to what extent his Christianity is or is not sincere, unless he wants me to know*. Because I do not own him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I did believe in god, I wouldn\u2019t believe that I was god, such that I could choose which people get the benefit of my standard ethics. And not believing in god, I don\u2019t temporarily decide there is a god, just so I can assign myself to that role long enough to judge which people get the benefit of my standard ethics. Respect everyone. If respect means that your ethics apply to them. Heh, easier said than done. But this is the ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Unless someone presents as a religious guide, then they need to be honest about their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m still a no-body-shaming absolutist, even now, in 2025.\u00a0 People should not ridicule Donald Trump\u2019s hair, or body weight, for example.\u00a0 And this is less about wanting to avoid hurting someone\u2019s feelings, and more about never wanting to make any claim of ownership, not even a glancing claim of ownership, over anyone.\u00a0 I do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanworldreview.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}