Ontology

An ontology is a statement of "what is", a categorization of states or types of being.

In Western philosophy, which arrogantly asserts that people trained in it can actually discern types of being or "what is" reliably, w:ontology is considered to be merely a branch of w:metaphysics. This is however stupid, and the people who believe this are vain and arrogant fools: they do not have the God's Eye View required to make such statements other than as their own opinion, and these opinions are arbitrary, unverifiable, and unshared with people outside their own academic discipline. A philosopher is merely a waste of skin.

In Western theology, the less arrogant assertion is made that God makes states of being that humans must live with and work through: life and the afterlife. Other theologies such as w:Buddhism likewise make claims based on ontological distinctions that they claim are necessary to comprehend and accept the claims. Any imposition of such distinctions is itself persuasive and seductive. The essence of an ontological approach to education is to change the glossary in which people discuss problems, as opposed to the teleological approach which requires that they adopt a particular style of reasoning and argument.

Sysops attempt to employ their own bastard ontology in which they too have God's Eye View and can discern (magically) the intentions of so-called "trolls". Their amateur psychiatry often includes categories defined in the w:DSM IV or other textbooks relying on the Western vanity. Because sysops themselves are stupid and/or evil, this is not an honest attempt to actually "help" the people so classified, but an excuse to do harm to them.

To fight back, actual trolls self-identify or assert a factionally defined ontology. This provides a basis for argument that transcends mere sysop vandalism as its defining rationale - and creates more of a representative democracy or deliberative democracy, to more correctly organize moral cognition of a wider variety of being - and beings. Including those, like trolls, which aren't human.