All the replies are denying that women are lesser.
Women are lesser than men to the degree that men are stronger, just as weaker men are lesser than stronger men. Men are the superior sex, and that in no way diminishes the dignity of women.
The most disturbing anecdote in this essay is from a grade-school teacher saying that on their first day of school kids used to cry because they missed their moms, and now they cry because they don’t have their tablets. If this isn’t fixed, it means civilizational collapse.
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 Are you trolling or are you genuinely retarded, do you not realize the implication of my questioning? I am challenging you to defend your own internal logic by reducing your arguments to their epistemic basis, and trying to get you to give sufficient epistemological justification
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 I will put it as briefly as possible; you are failing to address the is-ought distinction. I am asking you the most basic possible epistemological questions that have been the cornerstone issue of the debate regarding theism and naturalism for the last 300 years.
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 "Because agency is the thing that's doing the work" is not a sufficient justification, it is vacuous. I am asking you to justify it, why does it matter that agency is doing the work?
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 I want to know how you justify one distinction over another. I agree with you that "not me" and "not my race" are equally relevant, explain why agency is a relevant similarity and they are not. What if I believe only my own agency is relevant, or the agency of my race?
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 On this topic particularly, why would it being me as opposed to someone else not be a relevant dissimilarity? Everyone else is categorically dissimilar to me to the degree they are not me.
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 "I said privileging my agency while denying equal consideration to relevantly similar agents without justification is arbitrary." What makes them relevantly similar?
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 "Justification is a reason strong enough to outweigh competing reasons after considering the relevant facts. This is why context matters." How do we judge when the justification is sufficient?
@Tim0riginal@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 Your argument is entirely incoherent.
By what standard to we judge like-ness?
Why ought we treat like cases alike?
Without a teleological grounding, all courses are arbitrary
How does denying other people agency deny my agency?
What is sufficient justification?
@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 Unless we presume an intrinsic purpose towards which the human person is oriented, nothing can be defined as harmful or helpful because there is nothing to harm them or help them in regards to.
@NoDisassemble5@TheHistoryGuy07 The question is why harm is bad, not whether or not something is obviously harmful.
I would point out though, that in order to establish whether or not something is harmful requires a teleological view of the human person, which you don't have.
Nobody is really willing to acknowledge fact that age of consent is really about minimizing social predation, because it would mean that consent isn't the only principle of sexual morality. Two 14 year olds that have sex with each other aren't committing mutual rape.