If we disallow the innate human constitution as the objective basis of human rights, then we are giving up human rights completely. We may have other rights, privileges granted to us by an authority, but these are no longer secured by any fixed, universal point of reference but are a matter of judgment by powerful people, which can be then freely abused according to their desires, and this is precisely why we conceived of objectively grounded human rights in the first place.
Gender reassignment surgery is ethically equivalent to body thinning surgery on anorexics. It amounts to surgical mutilation of psychologically vulnerable people.
Normal people believe, correctly, that consent is necessarily Free consent, without any coercion. The authorities believe that when you are not pinned down and forcibly injected but only partially/economically coerced, this still leaves room for valid consent, so this ambiguity in the meaning of “consent” needs to be addressed, made explicit and resolved. Partial consent is practically meaningless, because only free, non-coerced consent can protect you from crimes against humanity, from abuse. Any crack in the scope of consent can be exploited against you.
Forwarded from Beach
If any person were to apply the concept of consent as preached by health 'authorities' and practiced by the injectors in the covid farce, but in the context of sexual relations, they would be charged with rape.
If a doctor knows that a person has to accept a medical procedure to keep their job, keep their house, or they will lose their profession and become homeless, is it perhaps ethically equivalent to two thugs bringing a distressed, battered woman to a doctor, asking for an abortion, because the two guys will harm her if she does not do that. What would be the liability for the doctor to comply with her request being clearly made under duress? Would it be just an ethical liability to agree to perform an abortion under these circumstances or also a criminal liability?
“Gender theory” is conceptually weaker than Flat Earth theory. Flat earthers are at least committed to resolving their conceptual inconsistencies by means of more complex theoretical constructs, whereas gender theorists and trans advocates are not responsive to the rules of rational discourse. Gender theory is therefore not a scientific or philosophical ‘theory’ but rather an ideology.
Some legal perspectives on the meaning of “coercion”: A) https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Coercion On this definition coercion occurs when a person is forced to do something that they would not do by their “free choice”, because of psychological pressure or a treat by another. “A defense asserted in a criminal prosecution that a person who committed a crime did not do so of his or her own free will, but only because the individual was compelled by another through the use of physical force or threat of immediate serious bodily injury or death.“; B) https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/what-is-coercion-law.html “The broad definition of coercion is "the use of express or implied threats of violence or reprisal (as discharge from employment) or other intimidating behavior that puts a person in immediate fear of the consequences in order to compel that person to act against his or her will." Actual violence, threats of violence, or other acts of pressure may constitute coercion if they're used to subvert an individual's free will or consent.”
People who get offended for wrong reasons are liable for causing the offence.
If the right to equality before the law is conditional on being vaccinated then humans are born without some human rights, which is absurd.
What is Transgenderism
Reasearch in psychiatric science and neuro-anatomy has established that transgederism is a result of anomalous brain development, causing a compulsive, irresistible conviction or feeling that the individual in question is of the opposite sex to their actual sex. The evidence suggests that the condition is consistently related to abnormal sex self-identification and does not involve or require explanation in terms of gender. The idea of gender, as something distinct and not determined by biological sex, may nevertheless be useful as a therapeutic token, a narrative tailored to help transgender patients to rationalise and conceptually integrate their fractured sense of sexual self. Another way, gender theory appears to be a fictitious construct developed not as a scientific model but a discomfort-mitigation tool tailored to assist transgeder people in managing their condition. This therapeutic model may have been recently hijacked for both propaganda/disinformation purposes, misrepresented as a scientific theory rather than a therapeutic approach, and to facilitate medical experimentation and profits from harmful, unscientific and generally hopeless “gender conversion surgery”.
“GD in adults is associated with an elevated prevalence of comorbid psychopathology, especially mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and suicidality. Causal mechanisms in GD are incompletely understood, but genetic, neurodevelopmental, and psychosocial factors probably all contribute.”
https://www.klinefelter.se/wp-content/uploads/Gender_Dysphoria_In_Adults.pdf
This may explain why transgender people are so abnormally impulsive, angry and vindictive when the therapeutic model that alleviates the discomfort of their sexual dis-integrity is questioned. Based on this understanding I have decided not to criticise inconsistencies in this therapeutic model when discussing these issues with transgender people, if this narrative gives them some relief, provided they are not activists trying to promote these tailored therapeutic fictions as objective facts to minors or other psychologically vulnerable people.
“Both post-mortem anatomical analyzes as well as in vivo neuroimaging studies revealed structural differences in different brain areas, comparing transgender individuals and control groups.”
“In MtF transgenders, the size and number of neurons in both brain areas resemble those of the female control group. This sexual reversal also appears to occur in FtM transgenders, but so far, there are too few data available. By these results, the altered number of neurons and the size of these areas could serve as markers for the atypical sexual differentiation of the brain in transsexuals.”
https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/IJSRHC-3-113.php
“Results suggest disconnectivity within networks involved in own body perception in the context of self in GD.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11682-016-9578-6
Reasearch in psychiatric science and neuro-anatomy has established that transgederism is a result of anomalous brain development, causing a compulsive, irresistible conviction or feeling that the individual in question is of the opposite sex to their actual sex. The evidence suggests that the condition is consistently related to abnormal sex self-identification and does not involve or require explanation in terms of gender. The idea of gender, as something distinct and not determined by biological sex, may nevertheless be useful as a therapeutic token, a narrative tailored to help transgender patients to rationalise and conceptually integrate their fractured sense of sexual self. Another way, gender theory appears to be a fictitious construct developed not as a scientific model but a discomfort-mitigation tool tailored to assist transgeder people in managing their condition. This therapeutic model may have been recently hijacked for both propaganda/disinformation purposes, misrepresented as a scientific theory rather than a therapeutic approach, and to facilitate medical experimentation and profits from harmful, unscientific and generally hopeless “gender conversion surgery”.
“GD in adults is associated with an elevated prevalence of comorbid psychopathology, especially mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and suicidality. Causal mechanisms in GD are incompletely understood, but genetic, neurodevelopmental, and psychosocial factors probably all contribute.”
https://www.klinefelter.se/wp-content/uploads/Gender_Dysphoria_In_Adults.pdf
This may explain why transgender people are so abnormally impulsive, angry and vindictive when the therapeutic model that alleviates the discomfort of their sexual dis-integrity is questioned. Based on this understanding I have decided not to criticise inconsistencies in this therapeutic model when discussing these issues with transgender people, if this narrative gives them some relief, provided they are not activists trying to promote these tailored therapeutic fictions as objective facts to minors or other psychologically vulnerable people.
“Both post-mortem anatomical analyzes as well as in vivo neuroimaging studies revealed structural differences in different brain areas, comparing transgender individuals and control groups.”
“In MtF transgenders, the size and number of neurons in both brain areas resemble those of the female control group. This sexual reversal also appears to occur in FtM transgenders, but so far, there are too few data available. By these results, the altered number of neurons and the size of these areas could serve as markers for the atypical sexual differentiation of the brain in transsexuals.”
https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/IJSRHC-3-113.php
“Results suggest disconnectivity within networks involved in own body perception in the context of self in GD.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11682-016-9578-6
Our innate biological constitution is the only objective proof of human identity, the core feature of human identity and a guarantee of human rights. Our human identity is the primary object protected by human rights. Any discrimination against our innate biological constitution is an attack on human identity and a violation of human rights.
Our innate biological constitution must be protected not because it is natural (disease is also natural) but because it is the only independent means for consciousness to realise itself in the world as a causative agency, as a morally autonomous Self. Any interference with these independent means of self-realisation by other agents would disrupt the integrity of the targeted Self and thus negate her moral agency and moral status. Our moral status as Humans hinges on the recognition of our innate biological constitution as an absolute right. To deny it in even one instance would be to deny it as a property of the human kind, and thus damage all of humanity. (# Human rights)
I agree with almost every point that Harari makes in this interview. His analysis of the Trolley Problem is spot on (pretty much exactly what I said to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, who responded to my critique of mandatory vaccination by describing healthcare as a trolley problem). I now understand that my moral disagreement with Harari can be traced to his lack of engagement with social ontology, or how conscious agency necessitates objective moral norms as a condition of existence. Nevertheless, Harari suprised me by stating he is afraid that in trying to improve human constitution by means of technology we could end up degrading it, that the technology can be abused by corporations and governments. This is precisely why, now more than ever, we need to guard our human right not to be discriminated against or coerced on the basis of our innate biological constitution, in favour of biotechnologically augmented subspecies. Zizek is a little low on form here but I generally find him entertaining and likeable, a treasure-chest of autistic insights, despite his ideological inconsistencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjRq-CW1dc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjRq-CW1dc
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Slavoj Žižek & Yuval Noah Harari | Should We Trust Nature More than Ourselves?
Are we above nature? How can we combat extremism? How do extreme ideologies often become their opposite?
In a lively discussion between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari, the two thinkers debate extremist ideology, our role in nature, the notions of good…
In a lively discussion between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari, the two thinkers debate extremist ideology, our role in nature, the notions of good…
My email to Yuval Noah Harari about the significance of our innate biological constitution for human rights. Discrimination against the unvaccinated implies that our innate human constitution (being born human) is no longer a guarantee of full human rights, which is absurd. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/email-to-yuval-noah-harari-18082022
When nature hurts us, we do not accuse nature of wrongdoing, we do not feel resentful. When a plague strikes we burry our dead, we cry, and we move on. When humanity turns on itself, when humans harm other humans, we feel victimised by our own kind, we cannot help but to see the perpetrators of the crimes committed against us as beings of the same kind, like us, but despicable. This implicitly makes us despise our kind, and thus indirectly despise ourselves. The resentment associated with victimhood is essentially self-hate. This hate can last for generations, it does not just go away, but must be conquered. The key to its resolution also lies in our belonging to humanity, but requires discernment of that which unites us, makes us human: the collective creation of meaning.
The pursuit of eternal life is a symptom of spiritual death: nihilism.
“The leading project of the Scientific Revolution is to give humankind eternal life. Even if killing death seems a distant goal, we have already achieved things that were inconceivable a few centuries ago.” Y.N.Harari
Humankind already has eternal life; the generational cycle of death and birth make it eternal.
“The Human Brain Project, founded in 2005, hopes to recreate a complete human brain inside a computer, with electronic circuits in the computer emulating neural networks in the brain. The project’s director has claimed that, if funded properly, within a decade or two we could have an artificial human brain inside a computer that could talk and behave very much as a human does.”
Those who desire eternal life are implicitly confessing that their life lacks meaning, but are too unaware of their nihilism to suicide.
An integrated self is not afraid of death, because meaning transcends life. A conflicted self will not find meaning even in immortality.
“The leading project of the Scientific Revolution is to give humankind eternal life. Even if killing death seems a distant goal, we have already achieved things that were inconceivable a few centuries ago.” Y.N.Harari
Humankind already has eternal life; the generational cycle of death and birth make it eternal.
“The Human Brain Project, founded in 2005, hopes to recreate a complete human brain inside a computer, with electronic circuits in the computer emulating neural networks in the brain. The project’s director has claimed that, if funded properly, within a decade or two we could have an artificial human brain inside a computer that could talk and behave very much as a human does.”
Those who desire eternal life are implicitly confessing that their life lacks meaning, but are too unaware of their nihilism to suicide.
An integrated self is not afraid of death, because meaning transcends life. A conflicted self will not find meaning even in immortality.
Yuval Noah Harari asserts that “technology will turn Men into Gods”, but this is a category error. The essence of God is internal perfection, perfection of Self which is also moral perfection, and any technology available to Man would still leave Man as we are, morally imperfect, mentally conflicted and delusional. Technology and the perfection of Self are two independent categories. In fact, fixation on technology may be a sign of moral failure, of becoming less true to the ‘image of God’ and more like a smart animal.
Is she registered with the local council, microchipped and desexed? Who is her owner? Cats are generally not permitted to roam public spaces or trespass on other properties and can be seized: “Stray or roaming cats create a nuisance by trespassing on other peoples' property, and they can also kill local wildlife. Neighbours can object to your cat on their property and your cat can be seized by our animal management officers.” 24h curfew applies in some local councils: “Residents in Melbourne’s east will be hit with pricey fines if their cats stray from their home at anytime.” I suggest a weekly flea treatment. BTW, how does she know what it feels like to be a cat? I hope she is not also claiming to have any human rights.