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@Vyor on the way to work: :ROFLMAO: That's a very naive economic calculation to begin with, because it assumes that all 1.4 million trans people have the money to transition. They don't. But yes, trans people are seen by the industry as plastic surgery cash cows. Absolutely. Yes, the...

There are lots of failure modes for trans bullshit: If gender is separate from sex and is just an arbitrary set of performative behaviors and norms that society has decided are masculine or feminine over thousands of years, then why modify your body to match? Actually, this is a matter of...

Just FYI, if we allow for possibility of the body to be fallible, then we could just as easily say, logically speaking, that a soul being born with the wrong body is a failing of the body, as opposed to a body being born with the wrong soul being a failing of the soul (and by extension, God)...

I still think you're missing the point. Note the general trend among wokesters to prioritize "lived experience", and so forth. Their argument is that what you believe to be true about yourself and your own identity takes precedence over what others believe about you. This is, for instance, why...

So what you're saying is that the essence of the soul is strictly tied to the essence of the body, even if they are two separate entities? That's an interesting argument. For a long time, sex and gender were assumed to be synonyms. When a form asked you for your gender, basically, it was...

No, they are separate and distinct. The idea of gender identity implies the existence of a psyche separate from the soma, which, in turn, implies that the human body is just a type of vehicle that the psyche pilots, and that the two are not necessarily of the same essence. As a matter of fact...

My point is that people weirdly flip-flop from dualism to monism and back when confronted with the issue of gender. You demonstrated it yourself in this very thread. You stated the sentiment that "God made man as a man and woman as a woman, not man in a woman or woman in a man", et cetera. That...

How so? Explain.

I have no idea why you’re expressing so much hostility out of the blue. My point isn’t that being trans is good or bad. My point is that people who are pro-trans and anti-trans are operating on two mutually incompatible ontological frameworks and will basically be stuck arguing the point...

Obviously, you don't understand what I'm trying to say, here. The woke/unwoke divide is an ontological and epistemological one. As in, one about the nature of being and whether not it's possible for one to have knowledge of facts about other people, or if everything we can say about someone...

I was making a point. My point was that a lot of people are willing to accept mind-body dualism right up until the mind decides that it wants a different body for some sort of emotional fulfilment, and then they revert to materialism and monism and are like "You either have melanin or you...

Again, it was a rhetorical argument. If you come from a creationist point of view, then certainly, that could be considered the case. We might say that God, possessing omnipotence and omniscience, can directly perceive the actual objective facts of each living being's essential properties...

That's pretty much my stance, as well. It was a rhetorical argument.

I find it deeply ironic how many of the same people who believe in the concept of the soul nowadays are so eager to say that your identity is dictated by your physical body. The idea that humans are how they appear on the outside rather than how they feel on the inside does indeed seem like a...

That is literally his argument, yes. To quote Leon Kass:

I should mention, there's yet another dimension to this particular debate. Leon Kass coined the idea of the "wisdom of repugnance", or that deep-seated disgust toward something should be taken as a sign of its unethical nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_repugnance His argument...

This is actually a far deeper philosophical debate than it appears at first glance. The standard that furries and alien-lovers typically use is the so-called Harkness Test (a.k.a. if it's sapient and can consent, we can fuck it). This is actually quite a multi-faceted issue. It's bad to...

Xenobestiality is a good brutal slamming death metal band or album name.

Woke doesn't mean "includes gay characters". It is possible for a story to have gay characters but also be deliberately unwoke in its premise and execution. For instance, Buppa from Tokyo Tribes is bisexual, but the series itself is extremely unwoke and mostly deals with themes of extreme gang...

No, not that Utena. The other one.