I think it's interesting, though that you do not want a discussion of semantics, and that you use the disparaging notion of "acting like children and fighting" over semantics.

My contention, which I hardly think is childish, is that you have to address the semantics. Clearly over there "CG Artist" means something that people here refuse to accept.

Forget those words. Consider the title irrelevant. Then what are we concerned with? Over there, they mean to say that we are not like them, because they do something we do not do. The person who does that which they do and we do not is what they mean by what they call themselves, and I'm carefully avoiding saying it. Without saying it, their world view is completely wrapped up in the semantics of whatever it is they call themselves.

I don't see how it is possible to grasp the significance of the differing world view by avoiding semantics. It is at the heart of the issue.

Let's take an analogy:

If you boil some boxed pasta and heat up some sauce, are you a "chef"? It's clear that the activity you engage in is cooking, and cooking is among the things chefs do, but simply performing the act of cooking is not sematically all there is behind being a chef, is it? And when you cook and enjoy your meal, is there any reason you need to write about the unfairness of not being allowed to call yourself a chef when speaking to chefs?

How about "race car driver". I really enjoy driving at F1 Boston where we get in miniature Formula 1 cars and race these cars. Once I did a team endurance race for six hours, doing pit stops, driver changes, etc. Clearly I was driving and racing a car. Do I get to tell people I am a race car driver? snort

Pretending semantics have no value in the discussion is the reason that people can't settle down on this issue.

It is semantics. There isn't anything else to it. Everyone is engaging in some activities in common, while some are performing additional activities, and those people believe those additional activities are an important distinction when deciding the right to call themselves something which, by their definition, semantically differentiates them.

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