Jiro
27d ago
A million deaths is a million deaths, even if it's Space Year 52,026 and the population is numbered in trillions.
No,it isn't in any reasonable sense. The larger the population, the less significant something needs to be to cause a million deaths.
If the population is large enough, the common cold will cause a million deaths.
9/11 had ~3000 casualties and mourning them is still A Thing.
9/11 is bad because 1) it is a single incident and 2) was done by humans who have intelligence and react to policies and incentives. Without those things, it's nothing.
Jiro
27d ago
That's not what you're implying by "God is not accountable to others". ""God is not accountable to others" means that people shouldn't criticize God for not being consistent with conventional values of being good and such. If God has a nature which is different from those values, God is following his nature, but he can still be held accountable.
Jiro
27d ago
I would suggest that conservatives object to crossdressing for reasons that are similar to why they object to trans and different from why they object to Playboy bunnies. (Although there may be an additional objection that's similar.)
They're just men who think it's fun to cosplay as women.
But that raises the question "why women". There's a reason that drag shows are a thing and dressing up as doctors or firefighters are just minor elements in other performances. There's clearly an element there that isn't present for cosplay in general, and it can at least be reasonably interpreted as desire to be women, regardless of whether they deny it.
Comparing the number of people who died is misleading. The proper response is to retract it, not to make it technically accurate but still misleading.
Jiro
28d ago
My proposed gnarglebargles don't pretend that it's a coincidence that transition makes them outwardly resemble the other sex in some ways.
If they are doing it for reasons related to wanting attributes of the other sex, and admit it, then they are trying to be a woman after all, they are just trying to be one partially, and they aren't labelling it as "I want to be a woman". But the original objection applies: conservatives will know they are saying "I want to have these traits, and these traits are associated with being female, and that's not a coincidence", correctly read that as "I am partially trying to be a woman", and object on those grounds.
They would just give up on the semantic debate, and admit that their lifestyle still leaves them closer to very committed crossdressers than to the sex they emulate.
The same people who object to people trying to change sex also object to crossdressing, for similar reasons, so this doesn't materially change the scenario.
Jiro
28d ago
I'm not sure I would agree that God has principles. He has a nature,
Then rephrase it. People can come up with conclusions about whether God's acts are consistent with his supposed nature. In that sense, yes, they can hold God accountable, even if they aren't able to punish God.
Jiro
29d ago
A pencil is a good pencil when it is able to draw, is sharp, long enough to be held easily in a hand, etc.
By that reasoning, if God punished people for being kind and generous, he'd still be good.
God is not good in the sense of being accountable to others for duties and obligations that he performs admirably.
The word "accountable" here is tricky. Clearly nobody can punish God if he doesn't act appropriately. So in that sense, God isn't accountable. But surely people can come up with conclusions about whether God's acts live up to his principles, and if they don't, conclude that God is acting badly.
Jiro
29d ago
I don't think most conservatives, let alone tradcaths, would suddenly be fine with transition if MTFs gave up on any "woman" talk and, say, went back to calling themselves queens, or indeed (if that's still smuggling too much spurious femininity in there) started calling themselves fnarglebargles.
If MtFs transitioned but didn't call themselves female or otherwise associate themselves with femininity, then why did they transition? This scenario would mean that they're physically altering their bodies to crudely resemble women while vehemently denying that they're doing so for any reason having to do with women--their chosen method of surgical self-expression just happens to be sorta based on physical attributes of women. Nobody would believe them if they claim it has nothing to do with women because that would be a really weird coincidence. And most conservatives (and most people) would look askance at someone surgically reducing the function of their body for no articulable reason whatsoever, which this would be.
I'm sure a lot of people would have said the same thing about Nazi Germany as about Jericho. This mostly tells you how bad Nazi Germany is, not the Jews.
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