I want to be respectful but if they say they don’t care what pronouns I use for them, that feels like it puts the decision on me to choose what to call them and I guess I would probably default to “they” because choosing a gender for them feels weird… am I wrong?

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      You’re right, we can’t, as humans, care about or focus on more than one thing. We should ignore everything that’s not actively killing people and focus exclusively on the things that are.

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      Projection? They asked a simple question about something they were unfamiliar with, I’d hardly call that obsessing.

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      This obsession with trying to be a better friend/neighbor/coworker is what’s really wrong with the world today!

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      What about asking one question led you to conclude that they have an obsession?

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      You might not be fit to interact with society if you think minor etiquette questions are somehow stopping people from doing work to solve other problems.