My controversial opinion is that if everyone has the right to self identification, I have the right to reject that identification. I am under neither logical nor moral obligation to accept another person's beliefs about themselves or the world. Keep in mind I firmly assert that all people deserve to be treated with kindness and respect, I am making a descriptive not a normative statement. This is strictly a question of retaining the right to epistemological determination, "self identification" being based on that same exact fundamental premise.

Do you think people with autism, downs syndrome, or cognitive impairments should have kids?

Forming relationships with people that are different (as in, not relatives) helps avoid the bad parts of the family structure

That is an argument from utility, which can most certainly be debated. What constitutes "bad"? That is a subjective interpretation.

where the weirdness persists and grows, until it reaches weird shit.

And how do we define "weird shit"? Are "normal" relationships not "weird shit" and don't they lead to "weird shit"?

their DNA and having their own biological kids as if it mattered.

Well, it matters to them. Therefore, it matters. Doesn't it? It does to them.

Genuinely just poking at arguments here, I have no decided opinion either way.

You want the truth? YOU WANT THE TRUTH?

You can't handle my ban record.

Nice try, sitting this one out.

No sorrow.

Only potato.

Such is life.

See the problem with "identity" and what is "reality" and what things "are" or "are not" are profoundly complex philosophical questions that have been deeply, deeply thought about by the most brilliant minds of mankind since thousands of years, and they are yet to be solved.

That is why all claims about what something or someone "is" or "is not" is fraught with paradoxes that just collapse on themselves, and all claims to some sort of objective truth and finality are just fantasies.

What matters is to treat people with kindness and respect whoever they are. That's what I think. Doesn't mean we are obligated to believe whatever it is they believe. Everyone is free to believe what they want. That includes the right not to believe what someone else believes. That's what I believe.

Food, beer, and weed. Not necessarily in that order. We can provide for ourselves pretty well. But those three definitely help with day to day life quality.

Hahaha let's laugh about this illegal imperial war and normalize it like it's no big deal

What the fuck is fentanyal.

People usually don't just bomb random countries in the middle east for prof...

...Never mind.

Let's normalize illegal imperial wars for profit and oil without congressional approval, because who likes THAT guy amirite

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