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It's not about difference from me though is it? Again, this is an empirical matter. I'm not claiming "I behave this way, therefore everyone else shoul...
October 02, 2019 at 16:14
I disagree with those statements. As I've said, the human brain is a machine, it has limits and a relatively narrow range of normal function. FMri sca...
October 02, 2019 at 13:38
It's not the language that makes it so, it's the people using it. Someone using the word 'women' on a toilet door is doing so with the intention that ...
October 02, 2019 at 13:27
Ought to add for etiquette, I just wanted to get his response down, and you may or may not care, but I'm only intermittently able to respond further f...
October 02, 2019 at 07:49
Thanks for the article, it was a very good read. I'm not sure I see in it any significant opposition to what I've been talking about her. I think the ...
October 02, 2019 at 07:41
Indeed, but it's a task that is necessary nonetheless because we can only have one policy as a community. We need to work out, to the best of our abil...
October 02, 2019 at 07:20
Right. This is as good a definition as any of what I'm talking about. The consequences matter to you. The consequences of some policy are an empirical...
October 01, 2019 at 21:43
Yes, there are complications, probably more than I know (I have only a passing interest in gender issues related to some work I did years back), but i...
October 01, 2019 at 17:34
Pretty much, yes. I'd certainly prefer that a woman can act and ask to be treated in any way conceivable without that implying that she belongs to som...
October 01, 2019 at 17:19
The second part of your sentence seems to contradict the first. It reads to me as - they would not do so because of feeling, they would do so because ...
October 01, 2019 at 17:17
Personally I share the concerns of the feminist argument. I think a significant portion of what they're asking is to be treated like a woman. Which re...
October 01, 2019 at 17:05
No. We learn to use the word pain by observing the actions and reactions of people using the word. If we say "I'm in pain" every time we laugh, smile ...
October 01, 2019 at 16:57
So what's the alternative? It's like getting blood out of a stone talking to you about this. I'm obviously asking about how you form and change moral ...
October 01, 2019 at 16:49
Yes, I did say that I don't imagine a single purpose behind "I am a man", what I'm asking is why, in some contexts, the correct response could not be ...
October 01, 2019 at 16:39
So, with a use where 'woman' is a label based on a private feeling, how is anyone able to learn it's use in principle?
October 01, 2019 at 16:33
Yes, that is pretty much what I think. I personally doubt there's a single thing a person would be expecting the labelling act to achieve. The point i...
October 01, 2019 at 16:19
That's all understood, but it's just lazy writing on my part, not anything which undermines the position I'm taking. Something being a private languag...
October 01, 2019 at 16:03
OK, so what I'm asking, with reference to the above, is whether it's your view that these preferences and limits (what is/isn't OK) just pop into your...
October 01, 2019 at 13:45
So, if someone puts a sign on a toilet door which says 'women only' they're intending that it has a certain effect on the world. Probably, in this cas...
October 01, 2019 at 13:36
Yes, but you're using this fact to justify a position about harms. The original position about harms was not all harms, so it is a logical error to ra...
October 01, 2019 at 13:25
Right. Which is an empirical claim and so subject to counter-argument. Have you conducted or read a survey of "everything people don't like" to see ho...
October 01, 2019 at 13:02
As I've already said, I'm focusing on the use of those words to assign to categories, to label. Of course those same words could be used in other cont...
October 01, 2019 at 12:47
So your claim is what? You were just born that way? This feeling just popped into your head one day? Because I think the same as you, but I quite clea...
October 01, 2019 at 12:41
Yes. Put (very) simply I believe that you cannot rationally hold an absolutist position about free speech, and also a concern for the welfare of those...
October 01, 2019 at 12:22
On the contrary, I enjoy the way you discuss things and would have no interest in causing you to discuss them any differently. What we're discussing h...
October 01, 2019 at 11:38
That's exactly the problem. The moment there are commonalities attached to the term 'woman' there are expectations created as criteria for the use of ...
October 01, 2019 at 06:15
To start with, 'Gender' is a word. It defines what the language users use it to define. There isn't a thing it is which the whole community must consu...
October 01, 2019 at 06:06
Well, the evidence of my own experience, for a start. Ar you telling me you don't have a 'position' in this discussion. That if I did a quick poll now...
October 01, 2019 at 05:46
That would still be self-misidentification. The whole point of the private language argument is that correcting oneself (alone) makes the rule meaning...
September 30, 2019 at 18:17
I don't necessarily. There is a feature of a person which could be something like which social group they "feel" like they belong to. Someone might sa...
September 30, 2019 at 17:23
But 'gender expression', 'transgender' and 'sex' are not the terms I'm suggesting suffer from the private language problem. The categories within them...
September 30, 2019 at 16:45
I see. The starting point for me was No emotion, just a bare statement of fact. Hence my confusion about your comment.
September 30, 2019 at 16:37
So the immigrant's employers would be the ones committing the crime. American citizens. So why deport immigrants for the crimes of their employers?
September 30, 2019 at 16:30
Are you just going to reply in clause-less aphorisms all the time?
September 30, 2019 at 16:27
How is that the lesson? What 'logic' has been defeated here by emotion, I can't work out from your comment how it relates to the post it's in reply to...
September 30, 2019 at 16:17
Exactly. A situation which large corporations and the very wealthy are in too. Anyone who can afford a tax advisor will pay less tax than the equivale...
September 30, 2019 at 16:10
Of course it does, just as 'sick' means good among the youth (so I'm reliably informed). But that doesn't make it mean good for every user of the word...
September 30, 2019 at 16:01
I'm only glancing through this conversation, and I suspect what I have to say is what @"Maw" had in mind anyway, but I'm going to say it because this ...
September 30, 2019 at 15:42
Not sure if you're asking how I think it came to be, or what I think it is about those factors which give rise to a dichotomy. Presuming the second, i...
September 30, 2019 at 15:14
Granted. But your position in any discussion must surely be based on whether you think there's a contradiction, and whether you think it should be avo...
September 30, 2019 at 15:04
OK, I'll try for a short one. We're talking about two things contradicting each other. Whether those two things are theories about empirical observati...
September 29, 2019 at 18:14
It was, but the point I'm making is not specific to ethical normatives, so I used a more obvious example, to make it clearer. It's about the utility o...
September 29, 2019 at 10:16
What a facetious trivialising of what was a very thoughtful point. Your personal incredulity does not constitute an argument. What lends you the arrog...
September 28, 2019 at 09:00
Yes, this, I think, is a really good way of balancing the duty of care with a minimal imposition on freedoms. We allow adolescents to do whatever they...
September 28, 2019 at 06:43
The trouble is (and the reason I wrote my post the way I did) that the conclusion of utility depends on you agreeing with my premises. You've already ...
September 28, 2019 at 06:17
Not someone I've read. To be honest, despite the subject matter, sexual autonomy isn't really my main gripe, it's autonomy in general. I dislike the w...
September 27, 2019 at 19:35
You said earlier it was based on competence, now you're saying it makes no sense. Which is it? That may well be the mechanism, but it doesn't have any...
September 27, 2019 at 19:29
I think you and I might be working from different principles of justice. I don't think we should be taking anyone's freedom away without pretty overwh...
September 27, 2019 at 19:13
The trouble it it seems more than that, and somewhat endemic here. If the arguments start out that way, at least I can dismiss them early as mere pros...
September 27, 2019 at 17:03
But doesn't the 'self-' bit of 'self-identity' as... "the perception or recognition of one's characteristics as a particular individual, especially in...
September 27, 2019 at 16:57