I hate people who assume their opinions are obviously true.
@condret
Because it makes debate almost impossible.
They just say obvious shit like "I like good things and hate bad things", "good things are good; bad things are bad" and assume everyone agrees with them on what things are good and what things are bad.
Or they ask questions like this in bad faith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XVAmLoviaE and act all confused when people reject the premise that the 'rights' trans people ask for are all fundamental human rights that everyone should have.
@condret (I didn't watch that video btw because it was intellectually dishonest)
@light@noc.social @condret
My position:
There is a difference between claim rights and liberty rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claim_rights_and_liberty_rights ). Trans rights should be the latter, not the former. You have no claim on my worldview, philosophy, or sense of reality; only on yours and those you manage to non-violently persuade to accept your beliefs. You only have the liberty to consider yourself whatever gender you wish, transition, cross-dress, and associate with people who won't misgender you or whatever.
Similarly, people who don't buy into the transgender worldview (which includes, but is not limited to, myself) do not have a claim on what other people do with their bodies (except perhaps their young and vulnerable children), clothing, words, or anything else that is theirs. However, we do have the liberty of speech (but ofc everyone else also has the liberty not to listen).
