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@randrews
> Cooking it is fine, turning it into a fine powder and using it to coat weird manufactured substances isn't. :)
Why?

> Humans are strange in that we're the only animals to outsource our digestion. ...
That's probably (don't quote me; I'm not an evolutionary biologist) only because the population of hominids that started using that newfangled artificial "fire" thing lost the ability.

Idk. I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't eat. I myself tend to prefer less processed things. But that's more for taste rather than health. I think it's a fallacy to assume that "natural == healthy". Bitter almonds / apple seeds / random unidentified berries are more natural than crisps etc.

@Suiseiseki
And add to that that it's not spiteful or prejudiced to not believe that men can be women or vice versa.
It is absolutely an insane argument to say that affirming reality can be morally wrong, let alone should be illegal.
@lxo

@condret I'm just going to get really into C and one of two things will happen:
1) I find that memory management in C is easy as you said, and I don't need to learn Rust
2) I find that memory management is really hard and prone to catastrophic bugs and then I'll understand the purpose of Rust.

Contrary to popular misconception, critics of the transgender movement do not disagree that trans people have "rights" as a monolith. They're talking about whether trans people have specific rights including:
- not being misgendered
- tax-payer funded gender surgery/hormones
- (specifically children) to get surgery at all without their parents consent (or with)
I don't definitely disagree with all of the above, but it gives you a sense of the reasonable criticism people can have with the concept of "trans rights" as "allies" actually mean it (not as the basic human rights they claim to mean).
I do definitely disagree with the right to not be misgendered, as that goes against the right to free speech, which I value a lot.

Trans rights I definitely agree with:
- having surgery with their own money as an adult
- social transition (excluding the bit where they force other people to play along calling them by their preferred pronouns using laws such as the German self-identity law)
- freedom from violence from bigots

Human rights are not just a stand-in for "things I like". They actually mean something. Namely, government force applied to protect a property of a human being or group thereof (legal right), or a moral obligation on someone to do or not do something to/for someone (moral right).
A legal right to not be misgendered means that the government passes laws prohibiting misgendering trans people. Think about that.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
(Oops; I thought this got through, but it didn't)

Yes. That I understand. I was asking about the social aspect of the commonly accepted left-right spectrum.

For example the far-right's "queer people are inferior and degenerate" (as @benroyce might have been alluding to) is clearly authoritarian and anti-freedom. But the right-coded pro-life movement is less clear.
I guess *technically* not being allowed to take the life of a fetus is "anti-freedom", but it's not against any freedom that actually matters.
In a civilised society we curtail the freedom to take (certain) life. Exceptions include animals (for food, clothing, and other products made from their bodies, and for being pests, etc), and fetuses (for reasons ranging from convenience of the mother or father to the brutality of rape and the injustice of having to give birth to your abuser's child).
I would think that expanding that right to life and bringing about further equality is egalitarian and therefore Left, but apparently not according to commonly accepted ideas.

There is also, as your YouTube channel talks about, the authoritarianism of cancel culture and general anti-discourse sentiment on the "social left".

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