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You're not wrong, but I think I expressed myself a bit poorly. (lost my original response, sadly my new response is less concise...) My major concern isn't that there are knee-jerk reactions, it's that there are forces pushing towards stronger more-immediate knee-jerk reactions. 1. Greater...

Rather hyperbolic of you, jumping from treatment for gender dysphoria to Nazi purges. It hardly seems fair that asking for evidence leads to an accusation of certainty. There is plenty of evidence that will change my mind, but you've not really attempted to provide any. Phrases like "I would...

It very much did not address any of my questions. How, exactly, does your post address the best treatment for gender dysphoria? I'll admit these are a bit low on my priority list for a number of reasons. The first is that I find the information density of audio/video to be rather low, and so...

The biggest problem is that the top google searches don't link here, but it's not too bad because they link to a forum and Aron Ra's blogpost both of which have a link to here if you read far enough (though the forum is discouraging until the very last post). Mostly I just wanted to say thank...

I'll have to get to the other posts later. It doesn't matter who it is. The optimal treatment doesn't change based on whether you love that person or not. "I care about them personally" does not mean it becomes a good idea to give steroids to a body dysmorphic body builder, nor dieting pills to...

Is #lor still up? There used to be a link to it on the top bar but no longer. I did manage to find the "unofficial LoR" discord server but my discord name isn't connected to this identity and I suspect that's a common thing. I'll have to install an IRC client or something. EDIT: doesn't seem...

TL DR: I can recommend you a web fiction to your tastes, or likely assess a (popular) web fiction for you. So web fiction has gotten huge. There's topwebfiction.com that ranks according to aggregate voting, RoyalRoad a website for web fiction serials (also AO3 and others), and plenty of quests...

Thank you so much. Saw AronRa's blogpost, I'm really grateful it was saved. Long Story: I don't check the email this account was tied to (since updated) so I didn't see the message about things happening. Had a minor sad-attack when the URL I memorized didn't work, but found AronRa's blogpost.

The people who are vaguely in my social circles and are willing to speak about the issue of gender dysphoria seem to categorically agree on the broad outlines of how it should be handled: Encourage them to live as their chosen gender Convince society to treat them as their chosen gender (e.g...

So the bible describes procreation partnerships using gendered terms and does not mention homo-sexual partnerships and therefore homosexual partnerships are immoral? In the U.S. marriage is a contract that the state uses to grant privileges to couples.

Moreover there doesn't even (necessarily) need to be such a process. If you look at a (chemical) solution it's fair to say "there's probably some sort of process that causes these chemicals to bond like this so reliably on such short time scales" or if you look at a crystal it's fair to say...

Re: Irreducible complexity and other creationist talking poi Premise A+ I see you went with the option of strengthening the premise. Let's call your refined version Premise A+, which you do indeed take as a given. But I don't accept it as a given; please justify Premise A+ without any...

So a dog/cat/bull four legged animal thing with a background that looks like spikes (note the horse head below it with a stylized mane and a flower-like background) and some pareidolia is somehow supposed to make up for a 64 million year gap in the fossil record between dinosaur and human...

I'm confused, how do they know the drawings are non-fiction? Is their argument really that dragons must necessarily have been based on a living extant creature that was really a dinosaur?

Re: Irreducible complexity and other creationist talking poi The argument for ID from IC needs to meet its burden or proof Incorrect, the burden of proof is on those making the argument for ID from IC (note: they are making the argument). You incorrectly think the argument is sound (technical...

What do you mean by "the laws of nature"? This is a huge ambiguity and ambiguities lead to sloppy "reasoning". EDIT: and actually, while we're at it, there's a huge ambiguity in "many units organized in a very specific order and pattern". With regards to a car I can think of literally trillions...

Do they really?

Re: Irreducible complexity and other creationist talking poi There are many variations on "this thing looks really complicated and I can't imagine anything that could have been modified into it, therefore it popped into existence all at once because god willed it so" but they all share the same...

Sounds good :)

Re: Irreducible complexity and other creationist talking poi This morning it occurs to me to note that mutation is not limited to operating on a single "piece" at a time. IC is fundamentally a statistical argument, and while it's pretty accurate to say that it's unlikely that the genetics for...