The trick is, don’t think of it as being ‘messed up’. There are a lot of different ways of being that are just fine.
One of my children will be named after Alexander the Great and Lex Luthor. I will be teaching her Aristotelian ethics, and I have a strong suspicion she will be told she’s a god by her mother.
Well, it may depend on where the person would otherwise be psychologically. I think there are ways of being that are messed up, and the wrong name can at least make that worse. It may be that only a small percentage of “Joy”s would be psychologically harmed.
If a name is the worst mistake a parent makes, then the kid will probably be fine anyway.
The trick is, don’t think of it as being ‘messed up’. There are a lot of different ways of being that are just fine.
One of my children will be named after Alexander the Great and Lex Luthor. I will be teaching her Aristotelian ethics, and I have a strong suspicion she will be told she’s a god by her mother.
Well, it may depend on where the person would otherwise be psychologically. I think there are ways of being that are messed up, and the wrong name can at least make that worse. It may be that only a small percentage of “Joy”s would be psychologically harmed.
If a name is the worst mistake a parent makes, then the kid will probably be fine anyway.