Michael

Just let it go.

It is different. Someone with anorexia sees themselves as fat, despite not being so, whereas a transgender woman doesn't seem herself as having female...

How is that funny?

I sell bridges. Want to buy one?

I did. Robert Rankin is my pen name.

How about a story about a boy who finds himself in Toy Town, where toys and nursery rhyme characters live? The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocaly...

Eh, it's not very original. A dragon-slaying knight is far more innovative.

You said "you are going to have to explain to your son how you changed the gender of the hero to fit the story for his sister". I'm trying to point ou...

Sorry, meant to say "changed the gender".

Changed the gender? What was the original story?

It's a boy. So you'll need to have a story where Knight Vesper saves Prince Michael from an army of dragons.

Was Joan of Arc a knight?

Dragons? That's fine. But female knights? Outrageous!

Well, yeah. "Vesper" isn't much of a boy's name.

Did Musk commit securities fraud?

That's the thing I'm questioning. If the Moon is the manifestation then it doesn't exist when we're not experiencing it, just as the character in a ga...

Perhaps the Moon is the manifestation rather than the external thing(s). I'm not particularly keen on reductionism, which I think is unavoidable other...

Nobody is saying that personalities are socially constructed, so I don't understand why this is being brought up. What I'm talking about is gender. Th...

We're talking about gender, not sex, and I don't think animals have genders. Your leading question is a red herring.

Then you're misunderstanding me, because that's not what I meant. What I'm saying is that their gender isn't determined by their genitals or their chr...

Sure, which is a point in favour of the transgender person who identifies with the female social role despite having male genitalia or the male social...

What should be called into question is the notion that "man" and "woman" refer to some dichotomous 'essence' that people have. I'm not an essentialist...

I didn't say that.

1:20,000 males.

It's 5?-Reductase deficiency:

Then there's XX male syndrome, where the person has XX chromosomes but male genitalia. And a number of other sex chromosome disorders.

So what of someone with XY gonadal dysgenesis? They have XY chromosomes but female genitalia (albeit with streak gonads rather than ovaries or testes)...

I've been quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Although the last one was the Life of Brian.

Don't you oppress me.

I'm advocating for an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We'd take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of ...

You're hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

Although I wonder why the courts interpret "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" as "nor shall private prope...

I just misunderstood what was meant by "public use". I'll blame that on you for saying "the justification would need to be to secure the weapons perha...

Well, looking into it more, it seems that the government/Congress can't take possessions "just cuz".

Actually, reading into it more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution So "public use" is broader than I orig...

Yes. Although the part that comes before that – "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" – suggests that "arbitrary...

Presumably a restriction on buying guns will be part of the law that includes taking existing ones.

"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" Doesn't seem to be saying that property can only be taken for public u...

Listen -- pulling swords out of rocks is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from...

They won't be law abiding if the law requires they turn them in and they refuse.

Dunno. I'm getting lost with all the different things being discussed.

My business model is to have more revenue than I have expenses.

Sure, but I was addressing the OP which uses formal logical syntax. My ordinary language response was just an attempt to show why it's wrong.

Not if we're being strict about the logic. It is possible to not believe that p is true and to not believe that p is false. This is the position we (s...

I have a brother. Do you believe that the above is true or false? Do you understand that it is possible (even appropriate) to believe neither, i.e. to...

Isn't that how all contraband is seized (when the owner won't cooperate with the law)? I'm sure you don't have a problem with a force of arms being us...

This.

And that's wrong, because they're not equivalent, as I tried to explain. I don't believe that you had Weetabix and I don't believe that you didn't hav...

I know. I'm pointing out that ¬Bp doesn't entail B¬p. It's possible for ¬Bp ? ¬B¬p.

I'm not trying to be funny. I'm pointing out that not believing that something is true is not the same as believing that it's false. I have a brother ...