out of curiousity, does he seem really deeply committed to that? Like is it something he likes talking about or is he a legit charitable curmudgeon IRL?
He’s very particular and set in his beliefs, yeah. Once we were talking moral philosophy and I casually said I’m a consequentialist and he looked me dead in the eye and said, “I’m a deontologist” and nearly kicked me out of the house over that. It was kinda in the context of AES states where I wasn’t really hiding my power level which probably contributed to everything.
I was sometimes able to speak his language because we’re both nerds and kinda autistic and in some ways had similar experiences, but the word “trans” was just a bridge too far for him and we haven’t really spoken since. Fortunately another living situation worked out afterwards but I was in a depressive funk for a while afterwards.
He doesn’t get along with a lot of people and has frequently clashed with managers and coworkers (he works in tech), but he finally found a little town with a Catholic college where he can work remotely and fit in as well as he could anywhere.
Super interesting, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry to hear you hit an irreconcilable difference with him over trans stuff. I can imagine that was pretty fucking awful.
I wonder if he’s happy, relatively speaking. Hopefully you are!
out of curiousity, does he seem really deeply committed to that? Like is it something he likes talking about or is he a legit charitable curmudgeon IRL?
He’s very particular and set in his beliefs, yeah. Once we were talking moral philosophy and I casually said I’m a consequentialist and he looked me dead in the eye and said, “I’m a deontologist” and nearly kicked me out of the house over that. It was kinda in the context of AES states where I wasn’t really hiding my power level which probably contributed to everything.
I was sometimes able to speak his language because we’re both nerds and kinda autistic and in some ways had similar experiences, but the word “trans” was just a bridge too far for him and we haven’t really spoken since. Fortunately another living situation worked out afterwards but I was in a depressive funk for a while afterwards.
He doesn’t get along with a lot of people and has frequently clashed with managers and coworkers (he works in tech), but he finally found a little town with a Catholic college where he can work remotely and fit in as well as he could anywhere.
Super interesting, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry to hear you hit an irreconcilable difference with him over trans stuff. I can imagine that was pretty fucking awful.
I wonder if he’s happy, relatively speaking. Hopefully you are!
Thanks.
Damn wait until he finds out that consequentialism is just deontology phrased differently.