RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 pm
(January 24, 2025 at 3:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In a metaethical sense of the term our not wanting this or that is not objective. It's subjective (or noncognitive). Similarly, if the age of consent were subjective it would be based on the specific child in question (or their legal guardian) wanting to be married and believing they were mature enough to make that decision. What we do when it comes to legality is more often relativist than objectivist or subjectivist - as the law does not care if the child in question feels mature enough, actually is, wants to be married, or does not (in the case of arranged child brides, for example).
The point is not to argue whether or not this or that is objective or subjective..though. The point is that nuts like to mount these kinds of arguments as diversionary tactics and rhetorical traps. They don't believe a word of what they say to people they're trying to trigger.
This is nothing but an appeal to consequences. Hard to sympathize with your complaint about nutters when you're acting like a nutter yourself.
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