#HolySpirit #Forgiveness #Disbelief #Faith #GodsDesire #PersonalChoice #HeavenOrHell #ReligiousTeachings #SpiritualJourney #Christianity

I used to attend a university for a diploma in computer engineering. After a few semesters, I decided to stop studying there. I needed to withdraw. However, what they call "student peers"—I am not sure what the term is in English—were being reductionist and maximalist regarding the official documents, stating that I had already agreed to and chosen the university and the study program in the online application form. This is not fair. I believe it is important to treat each person as an individual, as a whole person, rather than merely considering what I have done to prevent me from leaving. I wasn't there to fulfill their collectivist culture, believing I should prioritize the university's name and dignity at the cost of my own. At the moment, I want to take a break from writing this, as my mind is troubled by thoughts of my past, including the emotional abuse I experienced from the university staff. Unfair, right?

#StudentRights #InstitutionalRigidity #FairTreatment #EducationalJustice #Individuality #MentalHealth #EmotionalAbuse #AcademicFreedom #StudentSupport #HigherEducation #UniversityPolicies #PersonalGrowth #RespectForIndividuals #EducationalReform #StudentWellbeing #MentalWellness #PersonalChoice #AcademicIntegrity #StudentVoice #FairPolicies

One of my Jewish friends in Europe turned out to be a Zionist, hmm. I don't know what she was thinking, she wanted to live in Israel which is currently at war, weird, even though she had been living in Europe in peace all this time. But yeah that's her personal choice, I hope the best for her.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #myfriend #myfriends #friend #friends #israel #personalchoice #zionist #zionists #zionism #war #peace #europe #europeisbetter #europeisthebest #iloveeurope #ilikeeurope #loveeurope

Why I'm Boycotting AI

https://unherd.com/2025/03/why-im-boycotting-ai/

#HackerNews #BoycottAI #AIethics #TechnologyNews #PersonalChoice #DigitalRights

To add to this discussion a vegan angle: on top of the all the ways humans are raising the dangers to public health by messing around with non-human animals, one of the shared erroneous arguments in recent years has merged with its anti-vegan doppelganger:

"it's a personal choice!"

It's most definitely not a personal choice. Consuming animal body parts and excretions affects those animals, individually, each one. Similarly, when you carry a contagious pathogen, you're not just affecting your own person, you're affecting everyone you contaminate.

This goes full circle with spillovers from humans to other animals. Here's an example article on that: https://theconversation.com/humans-infecting-animals-infecting-humans-from-covid-19-to-bird-flu-preventing-pandemics-requires-protecting-all-species-212679

#publicHealth #spillover #personalChoice #zoonosis #goVegan

#biodiversity #personalchoice #impact

@jutty
Happy you like it too 👏
Indeed it either is already pretty usable out of the box. Or, like me, one goes a bit more crazy and customizes the 💩 out of it. #personalchoice
And the dev had something like a timeout before already for over a year. Maybe he returns one day...who knows.

These #Freedom-loving advocates of #personalResponsibility show their true colors when asked to exist in public with people who make the #personalChoice to wear a mask when in crowded environments. They're liars who don't actually care about living according to the principles they advocate on social media. They're #fascists, and they want to dictate exactly how everyone else must live.

#GOPfascists #Christofascists #TrumpFascism #GOPHypocrisy #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/03/24/yellowstone-actor-says-he-was-kicked-off-plane-for-refusing-to-sit-next-to-somebody-wearing-a-mask/

Just a reminder: if you don't have anything in your profile or any posts that I can see (older posts from other servers), I will not add you.

"That's my purse! I don't know you!"

#Mastodon #Things #Stuff #PersonalChoice

#Disenchantment Gives #AbbiJacobson’s #PrincessBean a #Queer #HappyEnding.

Disenchantment‘s #finalseason is as #silly and #meta and #gross and #heartwarming as all the ones that came before it, and it spends a whole lot of time #doublingdown on the #idea of #personalchoice.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Streaming #Representation #Culture https://www.autostraddle.com/disenchantment-gives-abbi-jacobsons-princess-bean-a-queer-happy-ending/

Eating animals is a personal choose, to eat someone who had no choice. #personalchoice #freedom #vegan

@wesdym -
YOU don't like TikToK, don't use it. Same for Twitter. #PersonalChoice!

DemoCat-FL loves #Democracy, #Voting, #Freedom, #AnimalRights, #HumanRights, a loving family, snuggles, and napping. #RescueCat #SpayAndNeuter #CatsOfMastodon #FIPWarriors #AdoptDontShop #Healthcare #ClimateCrisis #Empathy #Kindness #Happiness #Positivity #VoteBlue #LiveAndLetLive #PersonalChoice

@KFCDonald they help find community and help community find you! But, you know, personal choice #personalchoice 😄

"Although we can't always choose what happens to us, we can always choose how to respond,"
This is just plain not true.
Trauma changes everything. The Fight/Flight/Freeze responses are autonomic. Which means you can’t always choose how to act when someone traumatizes you.
#trauma
#traumaresponse
#fightflight
#personalchoice
#traumatherapy