Doug1943
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The OP has framed this quetion wrongly. Of course, someone leaking serious military secrets is a greater threat to the US than almost anything else you could imagine. Catching this person would take priority even over catching a serial killer.
And of course someone deciding to change sex is no threat to anyone. In fact, it's a miracle of modern Western science that people who find themselves in the wrong bodies can correct nature's mistake.
One of the best thinkers on the Right is someone who made the transition at age 45.
[ Deirdre McCloskey - Wikipedia ]
[ Get to Know Board Member Deirdre McCloskey - HumanProgress ]
The issue is, should a child who is not yet old enough to vote, not old enough to have a driver's licence, not old enough to own a firearm . -- because they are not yet mature enough to do so responsibly .. be allowed to decide to have their penis amputated or their breasts cut off, given that some people who have done this have later bitterly regretted it?
[Hormones, surgery, regret: I was a transgender woman for 8 years — time I can't get back ]
We perhaps can see the problem with less emotion if we imagine that a fad for having a hand amputated began to take hold among young people. (I know this sounds outlandish, but, I promise you, things that are considered normal today would have been considered equally unbelievable fifty years ago). There is even a mental illness in which the patient may want to have part of their body amputated. It's called "body integrity disorder":
[ What Is Body Integrity Identity Disorder? ]
Now suppose 'body integrity disorder', or its functional equivalent, became common among children. While we might well allow adults to make the decision to amputate a body part, wouldn't it be crazy to allow a ten year to decide to do it? Or ... less radical ... suppose the desire for irreversible sterilization became common. When we're facing a population implosion, would we want to encourage it? Or discourage it?
There is an interesting related question, for discussion elsewhere among patriots: why has the Left taken this craze up so eagerly? It's not that they hate children. They don't. To understand it, you have to go back fifty years, and understand the phenomenon of 'postmodernism', a "disappointed Left's" response to the failure of genuinely Marxist revolution, in both the US and the Third World.
And of course someone deciding to change sex is no threat to anyone. In fact, it's a miracle of modern Western science that people who find themselves in the wrong bodies can correct nature's mistake.
One of the best thinkers on the Right is someone who made the transition at age 45.
[ Deirdre McCloskey - Wikipedia ]
[ Get to Know Board Member Deirdre McCloskey - HumanProgress ]
The issue is, should a child who is not yet old enough to vote, not old enough to have a driver's licence, not old enough to own a firearm . -- because they are not yet mature enough to do so responsibly .. be allowed to decide to have their penis amputated or their breasts cut off, given that some people who have done this have later bitterly regretted it?
[Hormones, surgery, regret: I was a transgender woman for 8 years — time I can't get back ]
We perhaps can see the problem with less emotion if we imagine that a fad for having a hand amputated began to take hold among young people. (I know this sounds outlandish, but, I promise you, things that are considered normal today would have been considered equally unbelievable fifty years ago). There is even a mental illness in which the patient may want to have part of their body amputated. It's called "body integrity disorder":
[ What Is Body Integrity Identity Disorder? ]
Now suppose 'body integrity disorder', or its functional equivalent, became common among children. While we might well allow adults to make the decision to amputate a body part, wouldn't it be crazy to allow a ten year to decide to do it? Or ... less radical ... suppose the desire for irreversible sterilization became common. When we're facing a population implosion, would we want to encourage it? Or discourage it?
There is an interesting related question, for discussion elsewhere among patriots: why has the Left taken this craze up so eagerly? It's not that they hate children. They don't. To understand it, you have to go back fifty years, and understand the phenomenon of 'postmodernism', a "disappointed Left's" response to the failure of genuinely Marxist revolution, in both the US and the Third World.
~S~
