Gender Ideology megathread.

[lee smith]

I don't see you had anything to apologize for. If someone does not like your views, so be it.

All beings have "intrinsic worth"? I have never been able to unpack that one. I noticed that even the head monk where I practiced in Thailand swatted 'skeeters all the same.

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The first thing beings do when transitioning to a new sphere is pack lots and lots of baggage.

UPG on my end, I was told by Sunna during a vision that all living beings, no matter their capacity, have worth. Now that doesn't mean if someone were to break into my home I would hesitate to introduce them to my 9mm. I would insure it had a long conversation with them. Does the intruder have intrinsic worth? Yep. Would it stop me from protecting my family with extreme prejudice? Nope. A person makes their choices and pays their prices.

 

[Xenophon]

Fair enough and btw I’ve never thought you intend hate or even violence towards others by anything I’ve seen you say.

Plus I should clear up when I say Phobia I didn’t mean hate but fear of what might not be understood.

I’m not really wanting to get into a whole thing here.

I like you and most of the things you post.

I was maybe being a smart ass with my initial post and carrying over some agitations from similar topics and comments from another forum. I could also just be in a prickly mood today.

Of course you are right that enlightenment doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone and whatever my own definition is shouldn’t necessarily apply to anyone else.

My apologies. I can be an asshole sometimes.

You're scarcely an asshole. Your stuff is good quality and well-reasoned.

One correction, though. I have no problem with some violence and agree with Kurt Eggers (Lutheran pastor turned Standartenfuehrer), "To hate can be an ennobling as to love." But, like love, exemplary distaste must be discriminating in its object. Disagreement as to where to stable John Thomas is a pretty petty issue, when all is said and done.

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UPG on my end, I was told by Sunna during a vision that all living beings, no matter their capacity, have worth. Now that doesn't mean if someone were to break into my home I would hesitate to introduce them to my 9mm. I would insure it had a long conversation with them. Does the intruder have intrinsic worth? Yep. Would it stop me from protecting my family with extreme prejudice? Nope. A person makes their choices and pays their prices.

Works for me. Personally I like the pun coined by Mo Zi, the anti-Confucian proponent of universal love (兼爱）。He held that slaying the criminal was not homicide since that ren (人， person) was not himself ren (仁, humane) and therefore no proper ren （人）.