Re:Amazon won't sell books framing LGBTQ+ identities as ment...
by leadingthenet on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:26AM
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I think the two of us are essentially in agreement, then. I’ll just add a few thoughts.
> I have not seen any such responses in this particular train of discussion, however.
Thankfully, neither have I, but it’s a particularly sensitive issue for me as just today I found out that one of these “hate speech” laws was passed in the country I currently reside in, Scotland. I find this, and other recent attempts at authoritarianism, deeply troubling.
> formal proofs
In a way I agree, but in another, even mathematics isn’t on as sound footing as one might first imagine. For instance, we know of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem (which says that NO system of mathematics can be both consistent and complete), and then there is the fact that none of us can agree on what mathematics even is, from a philosophical point of view.
Truly, I’m often astonished at both how much, and how little, we actually truly know as a species.
> I have not seen any such responses in this particular train of discussion, however.
Thankfully, neither have I, but it’s a particularly sensitive issue for me as just today I found out that one of these “hate speech” laws was passed in the country I currently reside in, Scotland. I find this, and other recent attempts at authoritarianism, deeply troubling.
> formal proofs
In a way I agree, but in another, even mathematics isn’t on as sound footing as one might first imagine. For instance, we know of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem (which says that NO system of mathematics can be both consistent and complete), and then there is the fact that none of us can agree on what mathematics even is, from a philosophical point of view.
Truly, I’m often astonished at both how much, and how little, we actually truly know as a species.