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Steersman's avatar

Abraham, thanks muchly for picking up the conversational ball and running with it. 🙂 Definitely trying to promote a wider discussion on those topics.

And nice to see your own post found some support -- I expect I'll weigh in here later myself, apart from posting this comment from my Substack here, but that will require more time and effort to do justice to it.

However, an important point probably bears some preliminary emphasis. You said:

"in a situation where the community, scientific or not, is telling us something that conflicts with what we intrinsically know to be true, it is important to trust our intuition."

Seems that "what we intrinsically know to be true" is something of a weak reed to be putting much faith in. Many people used think that about the earth being flat and center of the universe. Likewise about humans being the result of special creation by Jehovah.

There are solid reasons for biological definitions for the sexes that you seem to be giving short shrift to. You might want to read a post about a review of a paper by philosopher of biology Paul Griffiths on those definitions, and my conversation with the author of it:

https://www.notonyourteam.co.uk/p/the-failings-of-philosophy/comment/41100436

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Dylan,Thomas's avatar

Thank you

Just an honest appreciative,

THANK YOU.

I can share your personal observations and deconstruction of the conversation with those around me as a demonstration of higher level listening.

Some of the young people in my world are attempting to learn (or more accurately UNLEARN poor communication skills) this will help them engage a technique that is new to them.

Again, Thank you

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