Re:Man, 69, loses legal battle against temporal reality in e...
by EpicEng on Monday December 03, 2018 @05:13PM
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Quite the stretch. Ok, I give up: if it is demonstrable that a given person has traveled near the speed of light and thus aged significantly differently than the rest of us, that person should be allowed to legally change their age.
That's happened zero times thus far, so I stand by my original argument.
Re:Man, 69, loses legal battle against temporal reality in e...
by andrenth on Monday December 03, 2018 @06:47PM
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Physics is quite a stretch and yet denying biology isn’t... This is an anti-science, ideological stance.
Re:Man, 69, loses legal battle against temporal reality in e...
by EpicEng on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:23PM
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>Physics is quite a stretch and yet denying biology isn’t... Who's talking about biology? Go look up the definition of "gender". We can debate the specifics and current state of affairs, but you can't argue with the definition.
> Age has a definition.
Relativity explains that this definition is subjective, experimentally.
Astronauts experience time differentials and it will only get more obvious as we go farther. Again, the concept of granularity (how much of what matters from what perspective) applies in both cases - age and gender.
This isn't a justification. Resolve this philosophically however you like with one and I observe that it should be true in the other case.