Again, no one is injecting morality into this conversation, so I'm not sure why it keeps being brought up. Changing your hair color doesn't get you voted, "Woman of the Year". Changing your eye color doesn't allow a man to compete in women's sports. And neither of them renders the person i...

I can dye my hair. I can add hair when I lose it. I can change the color of my eyes. I can change the accuracy of my vision. I can fix my teeth. Change my nose. Improve my chin. Lift sags. Improve my skin tone. I can remove fat from my waist. I can staple my stomach so I am less hungry. I can lengt...

No man can ever become a woman and no woman can ever become a man.

Given that, I don't care what consenting adults do with their bodies.

The quoted article starts off wrong. No one is assigned a gender at birth. Everything that follows is mush based on the initial flawed premise.

Gender exists only in one's mind. Sex is immutable. No amount of hoping, wishing, lawfare, hormones, or surgery will ever make a male a female.

In the main, I agree with most of your first post Fist. What gives me and many others pause is dogmatic statements that eliminate any possibility of a calm, sober discussion. In the Reddit link I posted, there are a lot of people who are either thinking of detransitioning or already have who talk ab...

Here is something else to consider. A number of people that identified as trans or gender non conforming, decided later they were actually their birth gender. I tried to look percentages to that as well, but as with all studies you find, there are as many that will show very high percentages as the...

Sex and gender are not the same thing. Sex is a biological truth, and there are two sexes, period. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/ --A Addressed in my post. Those cases are extremely rare, and are the result of a genetic mistake. Y...

Sex and gender are not the same thing. Sex is a biological truth, and there are two sexes, period. In a few exceptionally rare cases, a child is delivered with either both sets of sex organs, or no fully developed sex organs. For those exceedingly rare children, sex is assigned at birth and surgery ...

I'm asking why Catholics venerate a hierarchy that does what this one does. Saying I am demanding Catholics justify their existence is as accurate as saying I'm demanding Catholics take down their space lasers. Both are dodges. Of course they are; this has been his tactic since he arrived. - Claim ...

In May of 2020, espousing the "lab leak theory" was called misinformation, and people were being deplatformed over that. Now it's no longer misinformation, it's beginning to become consensus. Nope. It's still misinformation. As is the misinformation that one government agency's "low ...

But in the US public support for the death penalty is down. I think it would be wrong to suggest that the system has become less corrupt - it is only less popular. I'd argue that's the power of the various anti-death penalty groups like The Innocence Project. Thanks to their work, the public has ch...

Amnesty International recorded 579 executions in 18 countries in 2021, an increase of 20% from the 483 recorded in 2020. But in the US public support for the death penalty is down. I think it would be wrong to suggest that the system has become less corrupt - it is only less popular. I'd argue that...

wayfriend, I believe my post four above yours combined with my post about quoting Hitler address most of what you're saying? Somewhat, but I still would like to say what I have to say. But one thing about your post I will say: there is misinformation that is literally dangerous. And there are peopl...

wayfriend, I should specify. I only mean declaring the intentions of another poster in the Current Events thread. Okay. But I was asking what Obi-Wan Obi-Wan Nihilo would want to do. See, he posted that Wos should stop posting what is essentially pro-catholic propaganda "with no analysis or co...

Fist, I'll point you to one specific member who posts an awful lot of those pro-catholic links with no analysis or commentary. You (I'm assuming it's you) locked a new thread of his with another of those links. And now that link is in the current events thread. The catholic church is unhappy that th...

A few comments regarding the last couple of pages: - On the topic of offense. Everyone's offended by different things. I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a fan of any organized religion, and I'm downright angry that the catholic church is allowed to exist given their well-documented crimes against chil...

Truly, having a "bar" for the death penalty just means that situations are "adjusted" to be above or below the bar as one's bias dictates. The number of people on death row who were exonerated before execution, and the reasons why they were exonerated, provide some deeply distur...

Aye. The problem is not about whether there are people who deserve to be punished with death. The problem is about who do we trust to decide? This is not hypothetical - the power has been abused often enough. Indeed. Which is why I would limit capital punishment to serial killers. Yes, but then we'...

It's a sticky wicket. On the one hand, there are no repeat offenders. On the other, do we want the government killing people? I look at people like Dahmer, Bundy, and the like and think that they're irredeemable....And maybe they are, and there's no point in prolonging their lives. But is that reall...

I ugly-cried my way through the ending of episode III, and I have zero shame about that.

Otherwise, this is generic zombie fare that ignores the reality of what the world would look like 20 years after Z-Day. I'll see the first season through, but it's not something I look forward to each week.