Should I use someone’s pronouns if it is not their gender?

[Kale100]

An example of the adjectives you might want someone to ascribe to you when speaking to you?

Those would be your own personal preferred ones.

Prefer someone call you handsome and smart (for example) when they adress you? Then use those.

If someone can own pronouns whats stopping anyone from owning adjectives?

To get mildly off topic but hopefully in way that can help triangulate an overarching principle on this subject.
What if a black person insisted you call them the n-word? (in a positive way, such as 'we are each other's n___'s')
Do you offend them by not going along? Or do risk offending others (and getting yourself in trouble) by going along?

 

[Fireinfolding]

Not sure here, but it seems (if I am catching this correctly) that Jesus is adressing a man with an unclean spirit (singular)

Mark 5:8 Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

And here its name is Legion, "for we are many"

Mark 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

Then he (singular) besought Christ that he (Christ) would not send "them" (plural) out of the country

Mark 5:10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

Mark 5:11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

Mark 5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

And so forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine

And the plural (unclean spirits) went out of the man.

They/them/we in one person seems scriptural in demon possession

 

[Fireinfolding]

To get mildly off topic but hopefully in way that can help triangulate an overarching principle on this subject.
What if a black person insisted you call them the n-word? (in a positive way, such as 'we are each other's n___'s')
Do you offend them by not going along? Or do risk offending others (and getting yourself in trouble) by going along?

I cant even imagine the scenario you propose. I just call people by their names whatever artificial sprinkles are added above and beyond that I will not participate in, whether they are offended or not.

 

[tonychanyt]

If someone can own pronouns whats stopping anyone from owning adjectives?

Where did I say that someone can own pronounces? You overgeneralize.

 

[tonychanyt]

assum

assume definition

assume

1. to accept something to be true without question or proof: 2. to pretend to…

dictionary.cambridge.org

You wrote: An assumption is an unexamined belief.

I ask: Can you give me a reference that states the above?

This is the 2nd time I ask: Can you?

 

[Fireinfolding]

Where did I say that someone can own pronounces? You overgeneralize.

Where did I say you specifically said someone can own pronouns? Its a common thing that even Matt Walsh has touched upon concening ordering ones own pronouns up as if they own them when its grammar.

Heres a clip of what I mean

 

[tonychanyt]

Where did I say you specifically said someone can own pronouns? Its a common thing that even Matt Walsh has touched upon concening ordering ones own pronouns up as if they own them when its grammar.

Heres a clip of what I mean

Let proposition P1 = Some people can own pronouns.

True?

 

[Fireinfolding]

Let proposition P1 = Some people can own pronouns.

True?

Only the delusional

 

[Kale100]

I cant even imagine the scenario you propose. I just call people by their names whatever artificial sprinkles are added above and beyond that I will not participate in, whether they are offended or not.

O well, lots of unimaginable things happen to other people. Happened to me, that's why I thought of it as an example.

 

[tonychanyt]

Only the delusional

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Fireinfolding]

Thanks for the clarification.

The video I posted made that pretty clear I thought

 

[Aldebaran]

I think people have done that ad nauseam. Genetics, Biology, Physiology, Anatomy... more importantly just plain common sense.
If I were required to say a man is a woman... and I did it. It would most certainly be a lie.
Their argument reminds me of the Star Trek Next Generation episode where a Cardassian was trying to brainwash Picard into saying there were 5 lights when there were only 4. In our case... that is a man, not a women, and the pronouns are he and him.

 

[eleos1954]

You wrote: An assumption is an unexamined belief.

I ask: Can you give me a reference that states the above?

This is the 2nd time I ask: Can you?

assumption

a willingness to accept something as true without question or proof:

Belief

the feeling of being certain that something exists or is true

Beliefs require deeper thinking into the matter (questions/proof/examination) ....

 

[tonychanyt]

assumption

a willingness to accept something as true without question or proof:

Belief

the feeling of being certain that something exists or is true

Beliefs require deeper thinking into the matter (questions/proof/examination) ....

You have given two different definitions of two different words. Is an assumption a belief? You seem to have difficulty separating the concept of an assumption from the concept of that of a belief.

You wrote: An assumption is an unexamined belief.

I ask: Can you give me a reference that states the above as a single definition?

This is the 3rd time I ask: Can you?

 

[eleos1954]

You have given two different definitions of two different words. Is an assumption a belief? You seem to have difficulty separating the concept of an assumption from the concept of that of a belief.

You wrote: An assumption is an unexamined belief.

I ask: Can you give me a reference that states the above as a single definition?

This is the 3rd time I ask: Can you?

question or proof

You seem to have difficulty separating the concept of an assumption from the concept of that of a belief.

That's your assumption.

 

[tonychanyt]

question or proof



That's your assumption.

Was it my belief as well according to your definitions?

 

[Saber Truth Tiger]

Was it my belief as well according to your definitions?

Tony, why don't you consult Webster's or any other dictionary and discover what an assumption is? Try Websters or Oxfords. They both are good dictionaries. If you can't accept their definitions of belief or assumption then what would you accept? Do you ever use the word "assumption" or "assume" in writing or speaking? If so, what do you mean when you use those words?

 

[tonychanyt]

Tony, why don't you consult Webster's or any other dictionary and discover what an assumption is?

What made you think that I have not?

 

[Saber Truth Tiger]

What made you think that I have not?

Because you are asking people for the meaning of assume and assumption. Why do you ask people these questions if you have already looked the meaning up in a dictionary? Or, are you just trying to be contrary, you know, maybe being a troll? Do you accept Webster's definition of assume and assumption? If not, why not?

 

[tonychanyt]

Because you are asking people for the meaning of assume and assumption.

Let proposition P1 = If a person knows the answer to a question, he should never ask that question.

True?