I yearn for a world where we may all be pigeons, and perpetuate no harm in the process

I have so much love for you for this. Be safe, be with friends and comrades who can watch your, mask up etc.

Well I was working off the wisdom that nobody hates ciggerettes like an ex smoker but I suppose someone who watched a friend waste away from lung cancer probably would.

There's a certain type of person who takes pride in the fact they've never shoplifted while never having been close enough to the poverty line to know desparation. Who cannot understand the concept of genuine nessessity. Who thinks the hand people were dealt in life should not be considered in a moral measure of their character. For want of a better word, a privileged person.

I don't trust someone untested by life because there's a strong chance they'll heel turn the second something doesn't go their way. Its easy to be generous when you have a billion dollars to give away if that makes sense

Yeah the person with a darker past can easily be one of those homophobic straight trans people, racist white queer people, misogynistic queer men, or transphobic queer people. I've met plenty of them in my time. They typically just accepted that it was wrong for them to be mistreated, and many get weird about their biases against other marginalized groups.

I've also met folks who never learned to unpack a bias because they were never worth the social conflict to correct.

And so who do I trust? Nobody, anyone can have a hidden harmful bias. But more realistically, I trust people who do the work and try to be open to criticism when they hurt someone.