Trajk Logik wrote: ↑September 9th, 2019, 8:09 am
Greta wrote: ↑September 8th, 2019, 7:55 pm
A philosophical discussion allows everything. I only referred to the social situation.
If you were introduced to a transperson, would you feel morally and ethically entitled to publicly expose that person as "false"? If so, perhaps we philosophical types should extend our "reality services" to the obese as well?
If the person told me that they are something that they quite obviously aren't, and then told me that I had to refer to them as the person that they aren't then I would politely tell them "No."
Politely tell people that they are scum, you mean. That is how a transperson would interpret your refusal to accept their identity. You speak as though they decide to change sex based on a weekend whim rather than a lifetime of internal struggle.
Or perhaps we should all step right up for Trajik Logik's Reality Services!
Worried that you might not quite be in touch with reality? Never mind, Trajik Logik will put you straight! You can trust TL to use his superior cognition to instantly cure you of your delusions!
- Trans: "Hello. My name is Susan."
- Trajik Logik: "You can't be called Susan? You're are queer bloke!"
- Fat person: "Hello, I'd like to try out for the touch football team.'
- Trajik Logik" "You? Get outta here, Porky!"
Most who live examined lives are aware that they cannot judge strangers too quickly because only relative superficialities are on display, so they have no way of understanding the history behind the other person's situation.