Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:25 pm
If I understand you aright, that means that male and female do not refer to real differences, only to imaginary or constructed ones that exist only in the mind.
No, you are understanding me very very wrong.
Detecting "difference" and "similarity" is what the brain does. It's how the brain classifies things when on auto-pilot.
There are differences (large and small) between any two things.
There are similarities (large and small) between any two things.
This is the cognitive foundation upon which ALL abstraction is built.
Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.
If we ignore all the differences between two things then they are "the same".
if we ignore all the similarities between two things then they are "different"
By tweaking the knobs on what you deem is "essential" and what you deem is "irrelevant"
you can categorize all 8 billion people on Earth in to 1 category; or you can categorize all 8 billion people on Earth into 8 billion categories.
The number of buckets into which to classify things is an arbitrary choice.
The criteria by which you place things into buckets is ALSO an arbitrary choice.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:25 pm
There is no basic human right for a person to be deluded, and no special human right to have any special "category" merely constructed for one.
Correct! Human rights don't exist! There isn't even a "right to life".
We made them up because we got tired of killing each other, and it kinds works. Sorta. Not always.
It's a hack. The system requires constant updating.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:25 pm
Thus, trans-rights cannot be defended. At least, not by you, and not on the basis of your theory.
Here's the thing... the basis on which I am defending human rights is trivial. Might makes right.
If you don't like it - violence is always an option. Obviously it's the least preferred option, but it is an option.
Or do you insist on having "rights" of some sort? I bet you can't defend your "right to life"!
On any basis or any theory.