Fluffy – Otherkin.net

Arethinn aTinderel replied 7 years, 5 months ago

Hrrrm, well. I don’t think you’re going to find a lot of acceptance for physical shifting here, either.

I’m not sure what Shiro might have precisely meant by “The country’s laws doesn’t apply to kinmunity”. You would need to provide more context. But if it was as regards “free speech”, that only means the government is not allowed to restrict you. Most online communities are ultimately private spaces, and whoever owns it can decide what speech is and is not allowed.
- Fluffy replied 7 years, 5 months ago
  
  Well the way shiro said it and I have screenshots to prove it was kinda like he was saying he has a right to discriminate. I told shiro that discrimination is against the law and the constitution and then he said that. I will send you a link towards the screenshots.
  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2ufJ4mCJoLOWFNFQVhnaERBUXM
otherkinnet replied 7 years, 5 months ago

Physically shifting is not possible. If you own a book that claims to teach you how, it’s lying. http://thegreenwolf.tumblr.com/post/26638052677/why-physical-shapeshifting-is-bollocks presents a number of reasons why, without even getting into the issue of the fact that our own immune systems would attack any cells that changed their dna. This can happen even with transplanted human organs, let alone cells and organs from an entirely different species. http://biologyweeps.tumblr.com/tagged/p+shifting+right+past+the+laws+of+physics/chrono also contains a lot of solid arguments against the possibility of pshifting. There has never been any evidence of anyone successfully pshifting in the community, and no credible member of the community claims that it is possible.

Moreover, Shiro is quite correct – the United States Constitution guarantees that the government will not create laws which impose limits on free speech. It does not say that website owners are under any obligation to provide you with a platform for your speech if they disagree with it. He is within his rights to “discriminate” against you for claiming that physical shapeshifting is possible on his server.

Here we do not have a rule against making such claims, but doing so is liable to reduce your credibility with other members of the community and make them less likely to respect you. Being otherkin does not require one to abandon the use of logic and critical thinking.
- Fluffy replied 7 years, 5 months ago
  
  First of all I can’t believe you are using tumblr as a reference lol. Science is always changing and I believe it will one day catch up to that. Second of all I can believe what I want. I am hurting none. Shiro was hurting me kicking me off his site. Also I can share the book with my friends with their permission.
  - otherkinnet replied 7 years, 5 months ago
    
    Tumblr is a platform, not a source. The sources I am using as a reference, who published these essays on Tumblr, are two individuals I know personally. One has a degree in biology and is working in the medical field. The second was the author of the first book written on the subject of otherkin. As for the idea that you are hurting no one, the harm you are doing is the same as that caused by those who spread belief in young earth creationism, a flat earth, or other conspiracy theories. Because it would take a conspiracy of epic proportions to hide it if pshifting were possible. Every nation on the planet, even those at war with each other, would have to be in on it. Every scientific and academic and religious institution. Every media outlet. Because otherwise, anyone who could pshift would be famous by now, plus have claimed the one million dollar prize James Randi offered for evidence of the supernatural.
    
    Defending a falsehood requires making the truth, and any methods of accurately finding the truth, your enemy. http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/
Razkhel replied 7 years, 5 months ago

Physical shifting is scientifically impossible. You are deffinitely not going to be taken seriously just about anywhere if you believe in such nonsense.

@fluffyduffy