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But, then, why am I bigot? Or why am I, if you prefer, speaking bigotry? The people in here are trying to claim that I am a bigot or at least speaking...
November 08, 2025 at 14:22
Anal sex has been demonstrated to be correlated to an increase risk of getting: 1. Fetal incontinence; 2. STDs; 3. Bacterial infections; 4. HPV; 5. HI...
November 08, 2025 at 14:20
With all due respect, are you going to accept the challenge to demonstrate the slanderous names you have called me? I think it is rather disheartening...
November 08, 2025 at 02:04
Would you consider that transgender person a bigot then even though they were pro transitioning as a necessary evil?
November 07, 2025 at 21:49
CC: @"Leontiskos" @"Banno", @"RogueAI", @"Jamal", @"ProtagoranSocratist" Also, come to think of it, that transgender person I mentioned to @"Protagora...
November 07, 2025 at 21:35
I apologize, I am not really following your view on a nature. How can something be such-and-such a thing if there is nothing it is to be that thing? Y...
November 07, 2025 at 20:53
No worries, my friend! If you ever think of them, then please feel free to let me know and we can discuss.
November 07, 2025 at 20:45
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November 07, 2025 at 20:44
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November 07, 2025 at 20:44
With all due respect, your response is full of ad hominems. I don’t think you are doing it unintentionally, as I think you are a good faith interlocut...
November 07, 2025 at 20:36
CC: @"Philosophim", @"Leontiskos", @"Jamal", @"Wayfarer" @"ProtagoranSocratist", this is what I was referring to as the hatred, anti-free-speech, and ...
November 07, 2025 at 14:58
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Jamal, I have to admit, I also find the rules lacking clarity. It seems like there is a lack of checks and balances within the admins. I am not sure h...
November 06, 2025 at 18:30
I don’t think attire and aesthetic accessories are purely social (viz., purely how we symbolize gender). For example, makeup is closely connected to w...
November 05, 2025 at 21:31
Thanks, I will take a look.
November 05, 2025 at 21:02
All @"hypericin" is doing is ad hoc defining and redefining bigotry because they want it to be bigoted because they view the position that transgender...
November 05, 2025 at 21:01
Ok, but what is a ‘nature’ then? Yes. It’s innate to the organ: it isn’t supervenient. That is, the nature of an organ is intrinsic like its weight, s...
November 05, 2025 at 20:57
No apologies needed: most of it was red herrings and ad hominems. I don’t mean to deny that ‘gender’ is connected to queer history; but that it’s norm...
November 05, 2025 at 20:41
Well, it wouldn’t be real; because reality is objective, and socially constructed ideas are inter-subjective (even if they are expressing something ob...
November 03, 2025 at 21:05
Would it be fair, then, to say that you believe water is water, as opposed to something else, because of its structural (molecular) makeup (viz., H2O)...
November 03, 2025 at 20:52
Please refer me to your answer, then.
November 03, 2025 at 20:51
Good question. There is no such thing as a gender expression that is an expression of personality (in the stereotypical sense of ‘personality’ which i...
November 03, 2025 at 20:50
I was asking you a question. Do you believe that gender is social and biological; or neither; or a combination of those and other things?
November 03, 2025 at 20:39
The gravitational gender expression is tied to sex because it is the upshot of how that kind of being tends to behave (e.g., men being more interested...
November 02, 2025 at 22:46
Ok, so, then, you are viewing gender as a social construct—correct? To compare, I would say sex is a procreative nature of a substance; and gender is ...
November 02, 2025 at 22:41
But what makes it water? Why is it water as opposed to acid?
November 02, 2025 at 22:18
No, the OP defines gender as: That’s because I changed the semantics in the OP, which I openly stated, to help try and further the discussion with peo...
November 02, 2025 at 22:15
So is "sex" the biological nature of a being; and 'gender' is the social cues, expectations, roles, and expressions under your view? If so, then is ge...
November 02, 2025 at 21:53
To be clear, you still have not defined what you mean by sex and gender. I am still waiting. You are refusing to continue the conversation by actually...
November 02, 2025 at 13:23
Says me. What are these ties then? How do they work? If there’s no real essence to, e.g., a woman in virtue of which she is a woman; then how is she e...
November 02, 2025 at 13:15
Let's do it by example and start with an easy one. What makes water water to you?
November 02, 2025 at 12:57
I am not saying you are American; but my entire conversation about liberalism and conservatism in this thread is in the context of American politics. ...
November 01, 2025 at 14:01
What are you looking for in a criteria? I am not following. Are you wanting a precise equation where someone could plug in the values for the variable...
November 01, 2025 at 13:59
:heart: If you ever want to have a conversation about gender theory, then just message me. When you refuse to define the key terms, it is just hard to...
November 01, 2025 at 13:58
I could see this as a plausible account, but I am not sure if the 'gentleness' of certain colors has a gravitational effect, generally, on women over ...
November 01, 2025 at 13:57
I can hold a belief on a proposition, X, with high credence and still concede that I might be wrong: that’s all I did there. Doublethink is when one h...
November 01, 2025 at 13:53
I agree and am not meaning to convey that there are liberal or conservative theories of genders; but, rather, that there are gender theories compatibl...
November 01, 2025 at 13:45
If you believe that we can define sex and gender, then please define them.
October 31, 2025 at 22:01
Oh, nevermind then. This facial incoherence is due to a misunderstanding of hylomorphism. Essences, forms, being, and matter are distinct from each ot...
October 31, 2025 at 22:00
This isn’t a problem for Aristotle’s thought because the essence of something is in its form. The form is the actualizing principle that makes the ins...
October 31, 2025 at 20:27
I don’t see the relevance of the examples you gave here, but I will respond. Normative ethically, the response to an evil must be proportionate; but a...
October 31, 2025 at 20:10
We don’t need to have perfect and complete knowledge of the nature of a being to have good reasons to believe they have a nature. Essence realism acco...
October 31, 2025 at 19:48
It isn't a chair because you can't sit on it. What is your definition of a chair? If you can't give one because you think it requires essentialism, th...
October 31, 2025 at 19:30
The definition you cited requires it to be “obstinate or unreasonable” which is a loose way of saying what I was saying. Being prejudiced does not nec...
October 31, 2025 at 19:28
I apologize: I can’t remember if I responded to your first point in this reply. Well, of course. I think we are all sinners, there’s plenty of differe...
October 31, 2025 at 19:26
This is not a chair. Just because someone advertises it as a chair or calls it a chair does not make it a chair. It does not have the form of a chair....
October 30, 2025 at 23:40
The investigation of the essences of things is empirical: we do not know of the nature of chairness a priori. Now, you are right that teleology itself...
October 30, 2025 at 23:39
Your comments are not always helpful is what I am saying. Calling the most prominent opposition to your liberal views 'people with ratshit ideas' is n...
October 30, 2025 at 21:35
To me this is just a red herring. I understand this is exactly what Foucault wants us to think; but it evades a discussion about the truth of the matt...
October 30, 2025 at 21:31
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October 30, 2025 at 21:14
What definitions are you using, Banno? Do you a definition of sex and gender that you have in mind when using those terms?
October 30, 2025 at 21:13