> Not saying the hate is justified, but some things should better not be normalized.
You're implying the hate is justified, otherwise you wouldn't have defended it.
> I understand that you don't care for furries
I was one of them. Feline. Yiff inclusive. It was a phase, i grew out of it. This is what furrydom should be treated like: a phase young people go trough.
If you misconstruct that as hateful, i think this should be your problem. Feel invited to change my mind instead of insulting me.
I agree that its something that people must be allowed to try out, but normalizing it is not a good trajectory for a society.
But there's a difference between that, and sort of implying that it's something to be suppressed, especially on the basis of it being hedonistic. Everyone has something they're into, maybe it's sexual maybe it's not, and it's perfectly fine to look back with disgust at the thing you were once into. But really, I find it very hard to look at at least North American and some modern Asian societal culture as anything but wildly more hedonistic than a sex fetish that's a bit bizarre to most people already.
Maybe my tone was a little judgemental in my initial comment, but not inaccurate based on your followup. Would I discourage people from making the same mistakes I've made, I guess ya sure, but I'd try and be more specific about things like "Well ya when I was younger I dressed up like a cat and fucked strangers every weekend, but at some point it's good to develop slightly more meaningful romantic connections with people, and the whole furry thing seemed a bit childish in my thirties" or whatever. Because everyone has a different comfort level with their own sexuality and others', it always rubs me the wrong way when anyone says something "we don't want x leaking into reality", but the reality is that everyone's got some different thing they're into.