RE: Labels
July 2, 2016 at 5:56 am
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2016 at 5:58 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
The trouble with labels (my trouble with them, at least) is that they are inherently unfair characterizations of people, whether the label in question is accurate or not. 'Boru is an atheist' is true as far as it goes, but implicit in the label is that notion that I am first and foremost an atheist, which is untrue and unfair. My atheist doesn't inform everything I do or am. When I'm building an instrument or cooking a meal or dancing with my wife, I'm not thinking about atheism - I'm thinking about woodworking, ingredients, and trying not to step on my wife's toes.
I dislike labels, certainly, but I hardly think it rises to the level of a phobia - I'm not afraid of being labeled. 'Boru the atheist', 'Riah the Jew', 'Betty the Nigerian' and so on may all be true, but they do a dis-service to people because no one is all one thing or another. People are always more complex than labels would have us believe.
Boru
I dislike labels, certainly, but I hardly think it rises to the level of a phobia - I'm not afraid of being labeled. 'Boru the atheist', 'Riah the Jew', 'Betty the Nigerian' and so on may all be true, but they do a dis-service to people because no one is all one thing or another. People are always more complex than labels would have us believe.
Boru
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