Simon Paynton wrote:
Yet, each individual is a whole world.

I told a friend a few years ago, “When I die the universe dies.”

Unseen wrote:
While one often hears “But they aren’t even 1% of those competing in women’s sports” as if the ethical issue is one of numbers. “It’s fair as long as there are no more than x% of them” is wrongheaded on its face. Wrong is wrong. Unfair is unfair.

That’s true.  I heard a feminist on the radio saying that trans people make up only a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen and Simon and Robert, et al, A couple of observations and questions: The whole Rachel Dolezal story would never have existed if no moral or social or even metaphysical significance were given to “race” or “color.”.

I think in the case of Ms. Dolezal, she likes black culture, sympathizing, epathizing, and admirin…[Read more]

Just to be clear, I’m opposed to trans women having most (perhaps with a few exceptions) getting the same opportunities to an education, to jobs, and to housing, for example. There are cases, such as faciities designed to house and protect women who’ve experoienced abuse, where their very understandable concerns must be taken into account. And in…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
After all. if women and people of certain physiotypes were not just historically, but today are intrinsically in all circumstances victims of systemic oppression, why do some people want to be members of those victim categories?

I imagine it’s irrelevant to a man who is born a woman psychologically.  Rachel Dolezal maybe…[Read more]

Unseen and Simon and Robert, et al,

A couple of observations and questions:

The whole Rachel Dolezal story would never have existed if no moral or social or even metaphysical significance were given to “race” or “color.”. If a benefit did not accrue to “race” or “color” why would someone want to assume it?

Also, the Rachel Dolezal story and the…[Read more]