Re: PING! Michael

On 2024-11-24, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-24 5:43 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-23, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-23 5:41 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

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Yes, all that affects your life so profoundly.
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Ah... see. It's okay for someone who is confused about their gender to

 
They're not confused.  They know exactly what they are.  You are
confused about what gender is.

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Lucky for them we have developed the technology to help them to become
that they know they are.
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demand to be referred to with the pronouns of their choice but it is a
fucking travesty for someone to be upset about that person expecting
everyone else to change their language to suit their delusions.  In
English they/them is plural. If they want a neuter they should pick up
German or Latin.

 
English is changing, my friend.  It always has.
 
It's such a small thing to talk to people the way they prefer,
although it's perhaps unreasonable for them to get bent out of
shape if someone gets it wrong.

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It is such a small thing for us to change our language for them but they
are entitled to freak out if someone uses the language they have been
speaking for decades? 

Nobody's entitled to freak out.  That's simply discourteous.

They are welcome to suggest that they prefer to
be known as but there they don't get to pick their own labels and freak
out if someone defaults to their native language. In English, they and
them are plural.  The pronoun for something neutral is "it".

The English you grew up with is no longer the standard.

We need to rework the Golden Rule.  One author has renamed it
the Silver Rule and suggests this as the golden rule:
 
The Silver Rule: Treat others as you’d like to be treated.
The Golden Rule: Treat others as they’d like to be treated.
 
Which rule is morally superior?
 

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We don't need to rework the Golden Rule. It has been around for a long
time.  Do you really think it would be better to treat others how they
would like to be treated?

Yes.  Would you like to be treated the way I like to be treated?  I
like a nice glass of cow's milk with my breakfast.

What if I wanted you to strip naked and kiss
my feet when you approach me?  That's what I want, so in order for you
to be morally superior you have to do what I want.

Strawman argument duly noted.

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Cindy Hamilton