@PrettyDamnedHot@Alec_Sturm Well I’m just describing how some academics may view gender not my own opinion. Also definitions aren’t the type of thing that can be truth-apt, though you can make truth claims within intersubjective frameworks of language
@PrettyDamnedHot@Alec_Sturm Well yeah those people might genuinely understand themself to be that way, but then the issue isn’t whether or not they sincerely identify as an animal, but whether or not the term “animal” is reflective of an identity vs a biological category. The same can be true for gender
@PrettyDamnedHot@Alec_Sturm I mean I don’t know how much more I can reduce the terms without just having to say it’s primitive. “Sincerely” was just added as a way to describe a person who actually understands themself to be a certain way and not for purely some external benefit
@mentalspeech Free will isn’t defined by making choices based on your own thoughts. In modern academia atheist philosophers typically describe it as having control over one’s self in a way which allows for people to be held morally accountable
@DojiKoneko What’s there to hate about AI art? Seems good to allow high quality diverse forms of art be easily accessible and cheap to practically everyone. Even if you think the art is low quality now it’ll only improve within the next few years
@bellapromote@TertiusIII@Ipsirk_douce@AnAngelADay Well yeah there is a moral “sense” of murder? Sense just referring to how the meaning of a word can change based on the context of the language it’s being used in. People flip flop between a legal and moral sense of murder all the time, although both are heavily connected
@DCG3_GMiller@WalterHudson Trans boys are just kinda fucked in sports to be honest. They shouldn’t play with the girls since they’re essentially juicing and they have virtually no shot against males so they really can’t do anything to meaningfully compete
@BadCovid19 Well because fairness matters as a reason to why sports were segregated into male and female categories, but not within the two. It’s why genetically advantaged men can compete with average men, but those average men can’t compete with women, even if it’s not “fair”
@m3owm3owmeow How is medical testing on animals immoral? We eat them for whatever marginal increase in pleasure comes from their taste but we can’t experiment on them for actual scientific research?
@PrettyDamnedHot@Alec_Sturm Just that you have a genuine mental state of feeling you belong to that gender category. Like if someone threatened to shoot me if I thought the earth was round, then I would say it’s flat, but that’s not an actual belief I hold
@PrettyDamnedHot@Alec_Sturm In most of modern academia they’ll just say that sincerely identifying as trans is both necessary and sufficient. Although this definition seems very at odds with how gender is described by the typical person
@AnJa_UwU@MoronMining “Trans is okay” is a different statement then trying to change how the language surrounding gender and sex is used. I could be a Christian and say “people who claim to be trans deserved to be loved” and also say “trans women aren’t what they claim to be”
@smacofsky Well fairness matters in so far as it’s a reason that sports were split into male/female categories in the first place, but it doesn’t matter within the two. Even if their was a genetically “weak” man most people wouldn’t want him to compete with women even if it was “fair”
@bellapromote@TertiusIII@Ipsirk_douce@AnAngelADay Seems like he’s using the term “murder” in a moral sense not a legal one. So murder would be the unjustified killing of someone, where unjustified = if the moral considerations don’t favor the killing as a morally reasonable action
@TamsyCaines1@EPhan532@_badtakebarbie Yeah bro typically comparisons are meant to compare two different things 😭 do you want him to say “imagine if women were as disgusted with abortions as they were with abortions”
@lgk0e2@Aryan_Anya@mshavisham I think the point was that restricting someone’s autonomy isn’t bad in of itself, assuming it’s done for some moral consideration. So punching your child or starving them would be illegal and morally condemnable even if your exercising your autonomy because of the harm it causes