...and why I do not agree with the inveterate label-haters like you, though I fully expected them to pollute and attempt to ruin the threads regarding these newest essays of mine. Labels are sometimes accurate if they fit, and people are as often happy to use them to define themselves as are others who hate them because they insist they can be nothing but negative, as opposed to specifically how they are used, and for what purpose. Labels have been used to help groups of oppressed people unify themselves into important political organizations in the past. I guess from your standpoint, orgs like B4U-ACT serve no purpose because pedophiles and hebephiles don't actually exist, as all humans are "the same" when it comes to general preferences and desires, right? Here you can see how your anti-label ideology hurts, rather than helps, oppressed groups achieve their rights and simultaneously make a further statement in support of the concept of diversity, which is a natural rule of humanity.

The label-haters tend to believe that acknowledging the great diversity in the human species is somehow a negative thing that will hurt us from a political standpoint, and that we should try to deny any differences between us, no matter how obvious. That, IMO, is playing Big Brother more than anything else, because the fact remains, differences in terms of overall preferences and emotional needs amongst different do exist, and I strongly believe that the democratic way to go is to embrace diversity in all of its various combinations rather than insist there are no differences. Your stance may have its heart in the right place, but it's very disingenuous, and it casts aspersions on labels in an intrinsic sense that fails to acknowledge that history appears to show that labels are good or bad depending upon how they are used, rather than bad in any and all possible cases.

Your last paragraph about dismantling an apparatus that serves to make money from oppression will fall on deaf ears with someone like Trucker, because he fully supports a system based on money, and believes the system should is a great foundation for freedom. You are barking up the wrong tree there, Furcifer, because I have repeatedly stated that the money-making machine should be entirely dismantled, and have hardly received a large degree of support and agreement for it, though I continue to stand behind it. It's a bit perplexing that you never acknowledge this when I frequently say it, but perceive Trucker as saying it here.