the answer was in the rest of my post. If a girl made the decision to go to wood shop and was prevented, we'd be hearing about it, so it seems to me t...
You missed the part where Hanover said that had a girl wished to take wood shop, she could have. You seem to want force girls to take wood shop. If a ...
If the Swedish teacher refuses to refer to the children as "boys" and "girls" implying that she would be referring to their gender, yet there are the ...
Read it again. That was just an example he gave as to how we should handle teaching gender-neutrality to children. The fact of it's existence should b...
The paper says that the teacher doesn't refer to the children as "boys" and "girls", rather as "friends". Is that what the sign says on the bathroom d...
His link said nothing about Karl Marx. I think you and un, are the extremists here. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. When did you expec...
There are some issues that I thought that a gender-neutral school might encounter. For instance, how do they handle the bathroom situation? If the bat...
That is what the free market system is for. Make it an option for parents to try or not. It shouldn't be a requirement or even experimented with in th...
Many of these behaviors are instilled in people before they get to grade school. It starts in the home. Your first few years of life are where you ado...
I'm not saying that gender neutral schools are a bad thing. I'm saying that it shouldn't be pushed into all schools, just as I think a certain religio...
You need some perspective. If American culture is highly gendered and adversarial and the debate is overheated and ideological, then what would you ca...
Hanover and I both answered that. The answer is that you don't. You leave each person to their own devices in deciding how to live their own lives. I ...
Give me a break, Baden. You are the one who is prejudiced. I only want the truth. Sometimes you have to tell people that they are wrong (and that tend...
And what MU has been telling you for a long time now is that groups, or categories, are arbitrary. To say that something is defined by its relation to...
It's not gender neutrality that is the problem (at least from what we've seen so far). It is gender flipping that is the problem. When parents raise t...
I don't know about this site, but when a pregnant woman walks in and all the seats are taken do you get up to give the pregnant woman your seat? Men c...
All you are talking about is the political ideology of traditionalism or conservatism being imposed on a culture from outside of the culture. How is t...
Yeah, like I said, it comes down to nature. Humans' use of an arbitrary system of categorization isn't very helpful. The hierarchical nature of life's...
I wasn't arguing anything. I was asking a question and you answered it with another. Are we performing mental gymnastics again? Just answer the questi...
How do you know what it is you're preserving without first observing the culture in its primitive state PRIOR to any interference of another culture? ...
I didn't say that the senses are observations. I said that you make observations with your senses. That is the definition of observation - using your ...
This is nothing but straw-men, MU. Denying members of that culture the right to leave isn't just observation as I have been stating. Once you've done ...
How? You can only observe anything with your senses. The is a difference is seeing vs hearing vs touching vs smelling vs tasting, but they are all obs...
The problem with both of you is that you both don't seem to understand that this simply a revamp of the nature vs. nature debate in which I already sh...
:gasp: Mu, if you don't know the difference between simply observing someone's normal behavior to acquire knowledge, and beating someone to make them ...
This is ridiculous. Then 10 different people reading your post and interpret it 10 different ways, and your own ( the author) interpretation would be ...
It seems to me that a more advanced culture would want to preserve a more primitive one for the purpose of science - something a more primitive societ...
You're forgetting about observation. How does any human form knowledge without observation? Observation is an aspect of science. All in all, philosoph...
This is nonsense. A culture in decline wouldn't have millions of people risking their lives to immigrate to it. Millions of people risking their lives...
I have no idea. First, don't we need to question the claim of some people over some land? Or are we simply defending our groups resources? Claiming la...
But when the US wants to maintain its cultural integrity by building a wall to keep people that we don't know out, then that is more barbaric than the...
"Transcendent" means beyond nature, or more than the sum of its parts. I have no idea what "beyond nature" means. Everything has a causal connection. ...
Why are you answering a question with a question? What do you mean by "understand" and "meaning"? Understanding is knowing. Knowing is having a set of...
How can the Processist use words to refer to things, like "tree" or "grandmother", if those things are constantly changing? Using language takes time ...
How can something be understandable without reference? What does it mean to "understand" in your book? "It" refers to the state of affairs - the condi...
If words don't refer then you aren't using language, you're just making noise. If language does not necessarily refer, then how is that you can use la...
Do fetuses feel pain? Do they experience stress when being aborted? I would say that anything with a nervous system feels pain and stress. Late term a...
Speak for yourself. It isn't difficult. Nothing is like unicorns in that they only exist as concepts that don't refer to anything like other concepts ...
Go back and read what I wrote. I never claimed that Nazis came to power ONLY by limiting free speech. They used violence against anyone who spoke nega...
Nazism came to power because of limited free speech not because of free speech. When your party controls the airwaves, controls the conversation, and ...
Exactly. You didn't really read what I wrote and went about making an argument against something that I never said. This is a very common occurrence o...
I don't know what this means. I don't think you know what it means either as you put "illusion" in quotes. I explained that an illusion is a misinterp...
They are connected causally. Would you have eaten ice cream if you had not the desire to do so prior to eating it? Does eating the ice cream cause sat...
You've already assumed dualism is the case in the response to the claim that "everything is matter, or mind". By asking, "as opposed to what?" you've ...
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