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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
That would still be self-misidentification. The whole point of the private language argument is that correcting oneself (alone) makes the rule meaning...
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...
But 'gender expression', 'transgender' and 'sex' are not the terms I'm suggesting suffer from the private language problem. The categories within them...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What a facetious trivialising of what was a very thoughtful point. Your personal incredulity does not constitute an argument. What lends you the arrog...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
But doesn't the 'self-' bit of 'self-identity' as... "the perception or recognition of one's characteristics as a particular individual, especially in...
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