Shoresy

I feel lucky, if my Mom told me I could pick my gender when I was 6, I probably would have gone on a murder spree at some point in my life.


whether It's classifiable as mental illness or just socio-psychological evolution is open for discussion


It's mostly both of these. Chicken and egg stuff.



Shoresy
As I always say...Procreational sex and recreational sex are two different things that are inextricably linked by the human condition.


We already struggle enough as a society to permit individual euthanasia. The euthanasia of a species with below replacement levels seems a tad spicier with harsh long-term consequences.


but the bottom line is


Nice word choice.

Shoresy

I don't particularly think it is useful to lump holocaust skeptics in with outright holocaust deniers.


What's the driving issue silencing those who seem to think the evidence points to 5 or maybe 7 million killed rather than the generally accepted number 6 million?


I was talking about a discussion on the "reliability of the evidence" which you were saying shouldn't be had/isn't being had when Holocaust denial is banned.

Usually, when discussion is banned, it's for a reason from those whose interests align with banning discussion. See "Climate Deniers."

Shoresy

The fact that you glossed over the word "false" and replaced it with your own word "narrative" shows you remain predictable and boring.


No one's pushing narratives onto trans people


Agree to disagree on this.


people who go on HRT....


Why is that even being pushed as a choice? Don't bother, I know what your response is already. A good-faith discussion would be neither predictable nor boring.

Shoresy

Also, something nobody EVER talks about, is that just because you feel like you don't belong in the body you were born in, it doesn't mean you will necessarily belong in exactly only one other alternative body. That's a false dichotomy that has caused immeasurable suffering. And I suspect you already know who has the most to gain from pushing that.

Shoresy

Sure, and cats are entertained by a laser pointer. Your point?

Personally, I find cats boring.


Especially the circus cats.

Shoresy

Thank you for validating the OP with the predicted response. So much for free will.

Centuries of philosophical debate ended with a meme reply.

Shoresy

It's ironic that the feminist movement was crushed into the ground, not by men, but by determined women who destroyed the concept of biological sexes. If there is no female, there is no feminism.


Feminism is currently facing an internal conflict over whether it should be grounded in biological sex or gender identity, and that unresolved tension is radically reshaping the past progress of feminism, which traditionally provided protected, privileged spaces for biological women. When everyone can identify as a protected class, there are no specific rights for protected classes.

Shoresy

I think he means conversations that are predictable are the norm now. People used to actually use this site for growth and change, and not as a megaphone. The site is now dominated with oversimplifications of everything and more parroting than questions. The hallmark of low thought.



Shoresy

Should is the operative word. Most people never see artistic creations within the context of the corresponding zeitgeist of their creation.


It's sadly a very self-centered view, and thus extremely biased and unfair to the original content creator. If cancel culture taught us nothing, it's that blanket judgements out of temporal norms usually manufacture ill intentions and warped understandings.



The same applies to debates about current events: when people vote on a debate six months later, they inevitably will evaluate the arguments using hindsight and information that the debaters obviously did not have when the debate occurred. This creates outcome bias, where voters reward whoever happened to align with what later proved true rather than who made the strongest argument given the information available at the time, making the evaluation unfair to the participants who were reasoning within the limits of the information of the moment.


Shoresy
Imagine if Canada was bombed by Koreans and they killed 10 of your leaders.


If those 10 leaders were killing thousands of us for wanting freedom, eyes would be a lot drier than you think.

Shoresy

A lot of these debates are written with contemporary considerations that often change over months. For example, a debate on the Iran war will be written today when there is uncertainty, but if you allow votes 5 months out from when the debate was made, and if the IRGC was deposed by its own people by that time, then the votes will be extremely biased.