Yeah you can just ask "How many fingers do people have?" and if they say 5 you can just respond "Wow that's really discriminatory against people with polydactyly!"
Then ask them again "How many fingers do people have?" to see if they changed their answer, and make sure they are not allowed to say things like "high five" anymore.
I got in trouble at work for saying in a meeting "a human with 9 fingers isn't normal". Someone claimed* their kid lost a finger in an accident took offense.
*I'm not sure I believe it, because the person who complained has one of those faces that looks like she's looking for trouble.
"So I assumed you didn't take them to a hospital, to a clinic? After all, if it is normal, there would be no reason to treat that. So which is it, are they normal and you're an abusive parent who I should IMMEDIATELY call child services on, or is it an abnormal condition and you're actually somewhat human?"
That might have worked had they confronted me directly. Instead like a chickenshit they went to my boss, because in modern corporate America actually confronting the person you take issue with and hashing it out one-on-one is frowned upon.
It's all Mean Girls bullshit I won't miss when I don't have to put up with it anymore.
Even if true hermaphrodites existed among humans, that's still two genders.
If you flip a coin, it comes up Heads, or Tails.
If you flip two coins, they come up Heads, or Tails. You can have two Heads, two Tails, or one Heads and one Tails (hermaphrodite), but you don't get one Potbelly, it's still two results: heads or tails. The act of having both heads and tails does not create a THIRD, unique result, just a combination of the existing two.
There aren't really intersex people. XXY is male. XXYY is male. XXXX is female. XXX is female. If you have a Y you are male. Then there is 46XY DSD but 46XY DSD is a male with a birth defect and they will present male at puberty if not given hormone replacement.
When you have a case rare enough that you can only find one example for a paper, that is the very definition of an exception to the rule.
While cartoonericroberts' point was not perfect in the making, it is sound in principle. One exception is not enough to justify re-writing the rules, or doing away with them entirely.
It's not a rejection of the rules, it's a recognition of a boundary conditions. If you don't accept that boundary conditions exist, your system just simply stops applying outside the basic points, and can't be used to explain anything out on the edges of it's analysis.
All models have boundary conditions and you do have to recognize them and deal with them. That's why you create small abstract categories for the extremes.
One of the many unfortunate symptoms of this battle between those who seek to destroy all semblance of the natural order and those who wish to be free from the new one the others would create is the total erasure of nuance, and with it, truth.
Then should we alter all of society to cater to one singular person's existence?
There are more people who are allergic to sunlight, than fall within your vaunted exception. Why do we not tear down all of society to please them? There are more people who have a phobia of heights AND who get vertigo. Why do we build skyrisers instead of catering to THEM?
Because a couple people don't justify overthrowing societal norms. An exception exists... Sure. There's women who think rape is sexy and hot (like that loon on CNN during the Cavanaugh hearings). Should we normalize rape to make them more comfortable? An exception, an oddity, an outlier, is no rational basis for making society-shaping decisions.
Some people with the Y chromosome lose the part of it that makes your sex male. So while they have a Y chromosome, it most certainly is not a functioning Y chromosome.
It's like with climate science (or really any field where liberals have there claws in, so basically all fields) drive anyone out that disagrees with the "consensus" and then declare the "consensus" true because everyone (who hasn't been fired, deplatformed, removed from committees and defunded because they disagreed) agrees.
The APA along with every higher education organization and licensing board need to be first defunded then the leftists need to be removed from these posts
"anyone who doesn't adhere to these new corporate policies and confirms agreement, is by default confirming they accept notice of termination of employment" - sent by email, on iPad
When asked how it felt to take human life: I wouldn't know, I've only killed communists.'
Yes, I know it's a Reddit link, but I chose that to illustrate exactly how far Reddit has fallen. If that post was made today, not only would the poster be banned, but everyone who upvoted or commented would be as well.
Yeah you can just ask "How many fingers do people have?" and if they say 5 you can just respond "Wow that's really discriminatory against people with polydactyly!"
Then ask them again "How many fingers do people have?" to see if they changed their answer, and make sure they are not allowed to say things like "high five" anymore.
I got in trouble at work for saying in a meeting "a human with 9 fingers isn't normal". Someone claimed* their kid lost a finger in an accident took offense.
*I'm not sure I believe it, because the person who complained has one of those faces that looks like she's looking for trouble.
How dare you be so racist as to imply it's abnormal for kids to get their fingers chopped off in knife fights.
Why yes it was a "knife fight American"; how did you know?
"So I assumed you didn't take them to a hospital, to a clinic? After all, if it is normal, there would be no reason to treat that. So which is it, are they normal and you're an abusive parent who I should IMMEDIATELY call child services on, or is it an abnormal condition and you're actually somewhat human?"
That might have worked had they confronted me directly. Instead like a chickenshit they went to my boss, because in modern corporate America actually confronting the person you take issue with and hashing it out one-on-one is frowned upon.
It's all Mean Girls bullshit I won't miss when I don't have to put up with it anymore.
Even if true hermaphrodites existed among humans, that's still two genders.
If you flip a coin, it comes up Heads, or Tails.
If you flip two coins, they come up Heads, or Tails. You can have two Heads, two Tails, or one Heads and one Tails (hermaphrodite), but you don't get one Potbelly, it's still two results: heads or tails. The act of having both heads and tails does not create a THIRD, unique result, just a combination of the existing two.
idk i get potbelly from thanksgiving...
There aren't really intersex people. XXY is male. XXYY is male. XXXX is female. XXX is female. If you have a Y you are male. Then there is 46XY DSD but 46XY DSD is a male with a birth defect and they will present male at puberty if not given hormone replacement.
Yeah, and everyone has either male or female structures, even if they aren't fully developed/readily apparent.
When you have a case rare enough that you can only find one example for a paper, that is the very definition of an exception to the rule.
While cartoonericroberts' point was not perfect in the making, it is sound in principle. One exception is not enough to justify re-writing the rules, or doing away with them entirely.
It's not a rejection of the rules, it's a recognition of a boundary conditions. If you don't accept that boundary conditions exist, your system just simply stops applying outside the basic points, and can't be used to explain anything out on the edges of it's analysis.
All models have boundary conditions and you do have to recognize them and deal with them. That's why you create small abstract categories for the extremes.
One of the many unfortunate symptoms of this battle between those who seek to destroy all semblance of the natural order and those who wish to be free from the new one the others would create is the total erasure of nuance, and with it, truth.
Then should we alter all of society to cater to one singular person's existence?
There are more people who are allergic to sunlight, than fall within your vaunted exception. Why do we not tear down all of society to please them? There are more people who have a phobia of heights AND who get vertigo. Why do we build skyrisers instead of catering to THEM?
Because a couple people don't justify overthrowing societal norms. An exception exists... Sure. There's women who think rape is sexy and hot (like that loon on CNN during the Cavanaugh hearings). Should we normalize rape to make them more comfortable? An exception, an oddity, an outlier, is no rational basis for making society-shaping decisions.
No. If you normalize rape, it wouldn't be sexy and hot anymore.
Some people with the Y chromosome lose the part of it that makes your sex male. So while they have a Y chromosome, it most certainly is not a functioning Y chromosome.
tRuSt ThE sCiEnCe!!!!
No, not that science.
No, not that science.
No, not that science.
Here we go, we fished up this science from the dumpster back there, this is what you need to trust, bigot.
It's like with climate science (or really any field where liberals have there claws in, so basically all fields) drive anyone out that disagrees with the "consensus" and then declare the "consensus" true because everyone (who hasn't been fired, deplatformed, removed from committees and defunded because they disagreed) agrees.
I hadn't really considered that cancel culture has been prevalent in academia for decades.
The APA along with every higher education organization and licensing board need to be first defunded then the leftists need to be removed from these posts
"anyone who doesn't adhere to these new corporate policies and confirms agreement, is by default confirming they accept notice of termination of employment" - sent by email, on iPad
You are entering a realm where science, logic, facts, and reason have no basis. You are in...the woman zone.
Alternatively, genders only apply to humans, and communists are not human.
Yes, I know it's a Reddit link, but I chose that to illustrate exactly how far Reddit has fallen. If that post was made today, not only would the poster be banned, but everyone who upvoted or commented would be as well.
I think this is great. Next time one of those whackjobs tries to cite the APA, just point them to this.,