No (since I’d silence specific statements, not specific people). Nevertheless, thank you for your answer.
You might want to read the relevant article on Wikipedia, and then consider if learning that your child isn’t yours would truly have the same effect on you.
I just read the parts of the wikipedia article about the psychological impacts of rape. I was wrong when I said in the comment above that “while it’s merely very unpleasant for men, maybe on the level of being humiliated in a fist fight”, I retract that, being raped as an adult man is quite a bit worse than that. However, even with this updated view I would still prefer to be raped than to find out that my child is not biologically mine. To my emotional brain cuckolding is about an order of magnitude worse than rape. It’s an unspeakably evil act (the cuckoo bird is the most evil animal that I know of), I wasn’t trying to minimize the effects of rape when I compared it to cuckolding, I was trying to make myself emotionally understand how evil rape is by comparing it to something that I find much worse. I understand that other people, women in particular, have exactly the reverse view, and that was my point in the original comment, comparing it to cuckolding is meant to help men and women sympathize with each other.
To my emotional brain cuckolding is about an order of magnitude worse than rape.
This could mean either:
a) I read about the psychological effects, and I concluded that they were one tenth as bad as I’d experience if I learned that my child isn’t mine.
or
b) Regardless of what either truly feels like, I feel the hypothetical of learning my child isn’t mine as an order of magnitude worse than the hypothetical of rape.
If you mean a), you’re probably extraordinarily sensitive, and when reading about a psychological impact on a normal person, you should multiply the estimate by a k>>1 constant to find out how it influences you. Being raped would probably break you completely.
If you mean b), it seems to me you’re not engaging with the topic, which is about the actual psychological damage, rather than our emotional estimates of it.
No (since I’d silence specific statements, not specific people). Nevertheless, thank you for your answer.
You might want to read the relevant article on Wikipedia, and then consider if learning that your child isn’t yours would truly have the same effect on you.
I just read the parts of the wikipedia article about the psychological impacts of rape. I was wrong when I said in the comment above that “while it’s merely very unpleasant for men, maybe on the level of being humiliated in a fist fight”, I retract that, being raped as an adult man is quite a bit worse than that. However, even with this updated view I would still prefer to be raped than to find out that my child is not biologically mine. To my emotional brain cuckolding is about an order of magnitude worse than rape. It’s an unspeakably evil act (the cuckoo bird is the most evil animal that I know of), I wasn’t trying to minimize the effects of rape when I compared it to cuckolding, I was trying to make myself emotionally understand how evil rape is by comparing it to something that I find much worse. I understand that other people, women in particular, have exactly the reverse view, and that was my point in the original comment, comparing it to cuckolding is meant to help men and women sympathize with each other.
This could mean either:
a) I read about the psychological effects, and I concluded that they were one tenth as bad as I’d experience if I learned that my child isn’t mine.
or
b) Regardless of what either truly feels like, I feel the hypothetical of learning my child isn’t mine as an order of magnitude worse than the hypothetical of rape.
If you mean a), you’re probably extraordinarily sensitive, and when reading about a psychological impact on a normal person, you should multiply the estimate by a k>>1 constant to find out how it influences you. Being raped would probably break you completely.
If you mean b), it seems to me you’re not engaging with the topic, which is about the actual psychological damage, rather than our emotional estimates of it.