I admit, I do genuinely love the left wing resolution to the question. “Just give people the freedom to harmlessly be themselves, or else” pretty succinctly cuts through the stochastic terrorism. From the outside, it seems like a complete philosophy with room for future development, edges only apparent when we begin to question what’s human or harmless.
Simply absolving people of the need to care about something is a gloriously tantalizing gesture, and simultaneously collectivizing them through a broader umbrella is powerful. It’s religion for atheists.
I think the default answer to any complicated question should be: “what recognizes human dignity and autonomy?”
I am a radical feminist and have a lot of complicated beliefs about the nature of patriarchy, the artificial nature of sex stereotypes and roles etc… but I also know that there is something about me that makes me a “man.” I have always been a gay man. I cannot explain this in a way that makes sense in that pragmatic materialist sense. Maybe there is some difference in brain chemistry. Ultimately I don’t care. My drive is to be a gay man. I am happy as a gay man.
Reality will always be more complicated than the constructs we use to model it. I’m team “be nice to people who aren’t hurting others” above all.
I admit, I do genuinely love the left wing resolution to the question. “Just give people the freedom to harmlessly be themselves, or else” pretty succinctly cuts through the stochastic terrorism. From the outside, it seems like a complete philosophy with room for future development, edges only apparent when we begin to question what’s human or harmless.
Simply absolving people of the need to care about something is a gloriously tantalizing gesture, and simultaneously collectivizing them through a broader umbrella is powerful. It’s religion for atheists.
I think the default answer to any complicated question should be: “what recognizes human dignity and autonomy?”
I am a radical feminist and have a lot of complicated beliefs about the nature of patriarchy, the artificial nature of sex stereotypes and roles etc… but I also know that there is something about me that makes me a “man.” I have always been a gay man. I cannot explain this in a way that makes sense in that pragmatic materialist sense. Maybe there is some difference in brain chemistry. Ultimately I don’t care. My drive is to be a gay man. I am happy as a gay man.
Reality will always be more complicated than the constructs we use to model it. I’m team “be nice to people who aren’t hurting others” above all.