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Squidmanescape wrote: HopelessNightOwl wrote: Here's the thing: the OP made a deal out of Helel using a "dead" name to refer to them. I find it highly presumptuous for a user to think they get to just declare a previous identity "dead" and demand everyone else honor such.

I don't know Helel's specific opinion, but as far as I am concerned he has the right to say "look, I know you as James Chape and you are still James to me. Deal with it." The user in question had already switched profiles once before. Would they be complaining if Helel kept calling them "Dinkleberg"?

I think it's the metaphorical aspect, like calling a butterfly a cocoon because it was a cocoon, in the sense that someone turns into another person.

It would be one thing if they were just using it as a metaphor, but the user in question is throwing around "dead" in an attempt to directly control what someone else can and cannot say and think about them, and I don't find that acceptable.