since this conversation's already been had, let me try a different tack.
Do any classes deserve privileged status? Should people with kids get tax exemptions? Should veterans get 0 down on their mortgage? Basically should we treat people differently?
If you answered that we shouldn't, then that would reduce to everyone should just do what they want and have all of the same opportunities. There should be no such thing as a woman's bathroom, men's basketball team, etc. I don't think the reduces to something productive.
I believe people are different in many ways. We should celebrate the plurality of those differences. When it comes to accommodations, reparations and legal issues, it gets exponentially more complex with every class that is defined. There has to be some consensus or framework to group the differences. I believe less is better usually. For instance, I think census forms should have American or not and Do you have dual citizenship? Since the census was originally about voting but more now about population maybe a question like How many people in your household followed with Are you able to give birth. IDK, just some quick thoughts
Do any classes deserve privileged status? Should people with kids get tax exemptions? Should veterans get 0 down on their mortgage? Basically should we treat people differently?
If you answered that we shouldn't, then that would reduce to everyone should just do what they want and have all of the same opportunities. There should be no such thing as a woman's bathroom, men's basketball team, etc. I don't think the reduces to something productive.
I believe people are different in many ways. We should celebrate the plurality of those differences. When it comes to accommodations, reparations and legal issues, it gets exponentially more complex with every class that is defined. There has to be some consensus or framework to group the differences. I believe less is better usually. For instance, I think census forms should have American or not and Do you have dual citizenship? Since the census was originally about voting but more now about population maybe a question like How many people in your household followed with Are you able to give birth. IDK, just some quick thoughts
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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