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

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

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]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not?

It’s not as simple as that. Sex is biological but gender is psychological and social. So someone can be born male and have a female psychological and social identity.

What a…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Never understood the connection between sports and “scholar”-ships”.  You are great at tennis, so we’ll pay for your chemistry degree. Some kid, good at chemistry gets denied.

I will have to assume that the one-two puncher gets taken on because of their added value. Rightly or wrongly, success in sports is good for the revenue…[Read more]

When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not? Maybe the best approach is to offer these folks therapy.  How far do we give in to this “I identify as” phenomenon. For example, do you remember Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identified as black to such…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Frankly, fuck the trajectory of sports. The commercialization, and the “win at any cost” and constant effort at cheating.

Right now, the main controversy isn’t at the pro level. It’s at the high school and college level.

My daughter didn’t want to go pro (as a swimmer? pretty much not a “thing”). She just wanted a scholarship and…[Read more]