(November 20, 2024 at 5:09 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 20, 2024 at 3:06 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Waiting for Bel to show me where the OP brought up any issue, real or imaginary, in any coherent sense. Won't hold my breath.
It doesn't seem obscure or difficult to me. If I'm not clear you can just ask a question.
It was the OP that failed to make any useful point by way of incoherence. You failed to make any useful point by way of jumping straight to pointless negative attack.
Quote:Though other interpretations are possible, the standard view of the Frankenstein myth is that a scientist does something just because he can, but then sees that the consequences are bad.
One of several messages that you can take from Frankenstein. The other main one is that Frankenstein's monster is created monstrous in form only, and only becomes truly monstrous through the callous, uncaring neglect and cruelty shown to him by his creator. This leads to a very different narrative in this thread. Sadly, the OP was tossed word salad, so we can't know which it was, if either. Regardless, comparing trans individuals to a fictional monstrosity that goes on a murderous rampage is thunderingly stoopid regardless of the intent. Lovely of you to chew us all out for not siding with that sort of bigotry.
Quote:For the record, I am not against people transitioning if they are making sound informed decisions. People should be free to choose.
Let me guess, you have black friends.
(November 20, 2024 at 6:26 am)Belacqua Wrote: Some people are stricter than we are concerning their epistemology. They think that we should only believe in those things for which there is objective evidence, and that subjective testimony is not good enough to be persuasive. So they don't accept the subjective testimony of people who say that their gender is different from what (until recently) was taken to be objectively indicative of maleness or femaleness. Objective evidence would include things like chromosomes or anatomy, or other observable, empirical evidence. For our more accepting attitude, subjective testimony is sufficient.
The objective evidence conclusively demonstrates that human identity is more complex than the set of chromosomes that you're born with.