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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by the_omegist on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:25AM (#32365807)
> “actively seeking to eliminate trans people,

Put it such extreme and dishonest way, reducing sugar in food it an attempt to eliminate obese people... No , the attribute is not the object.

> indeed, entire state governments in the US—are “against trans people”.

So you deny the rights of a community of people to decide what they deem legal or illegal ? All this for the personal benefit of a (literal) couple of people ?

Should they also be carried in Ferraris to their treatment place?

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by dragonwriter on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:51AM (#32365963)
> So you deny the rights of a community of people to decide what they deem legal or illegal ?

That’s irrelevant. Whether a community has a right to pass laws based on the fact that they are against trans people is not the issue. Whether people are. manifestly against trans people is the issue (and they very clearly are.)

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by kuschku on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:13AM (#32366378)
> So you deny the rights of a community of people to decide what they deem legal or illegal ? All this for the personal benefit of a (literal) couple of people ?

I hate to invoke Godwin, but just because a society decides to outlaw belonging to a certain minority doesn't make it right. The NSDAP's Anti-Jew laws were also passed in parliament, but still those laws were very obviously wrong.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by 0dayz on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:03AM (#32366023)
>So you deny the rights of a community of people to decide what they deem legal or illegal ? All this for the personal benefit of a (literal) couple of people

By that logic if said community is for incest, pedophilia and extremely violent and barbarian punishment, the country has to allow it?

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by amalcon on Saturday August 06, 2022 @08:51AM (#32367641)
Many societies over the course of history have decided that slavery should be legal. Some still do today. I absolutely deny those communities' moral right to this decision (though I can't do much about the practical right).
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