Sometimes I try to imagine what it's like, caring about who else uses the bathroom you use ... caring about how other people identify themselves, gender-wise ... caring about other people's domestic arrangements ... and I just can't get there.
Granted, no one targets their moral sentiments & advocacy purely toward issues they calculate involve the most objective harm. We're not robots.
Nonetheless, it is a moral failing to rank your social & political concerns *purely on the basis of what makes you uncomfortable*.
Nonetheless, it is a moral failing to rank your social & political concerns *purely on the basis of what makes you uncomfortable*.
I mean, the entire conservative discussion of gender issues proceeds as follows: a) this makes me uncomfortable, b) therefore it's bad, c) I can't just say it's bad because it makes me uncomfortable, so d) let's create a cottage industry finding/inventing real harms.
I know cons themselves can't see it, because that discomfort is so deeply rooted & primal, but for people who do *not* feel that discomfort, these arguments about objective harms just sound so ludicrous & thin, so obviously reverse-engineered.
Like, if you're just an ordinary person living an ordinary life, would it ever *spontaneously occur to you* to worry about a trans person using the same bathroom as you? Would you ever *naturally* come to worry about that if Fox wasn't rotting your brain?
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