Thread by @SonyaDouglas

If you untether society from material reality, you set it spinning off in directions you can’t control.
What’ll be the result of a law that says anyone can be a man or a woman if they say so?
You either discount your own senses or you discount the law, yes?
Can’t both be right.

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If you discount your senses, trust suffers. Relationships suffer. Cohesion suffers. People become embittered against others or themselves.

Truth matters. Personally.

If you discount the law, civics suffers. Cohesion suffers. Society suffers. And there’s a personal cost

to individuals in crime and fear and further hardships.

Truth is *essential to the law. There can be no fairness in society without acknowledging the objective truth, a starting point, without which there’s no possible route to fairness, compromise, progress.

Only conflict.

Today, as Holyrood debates taking a big step further down the road to conflict, if only in the shape of civil disobedience and dissent, I can only urge you all not to discount your senses.

This isn’t a debate about Kyiv or Kyev, or what to do about climate change; or abortion;

This is about the basics of how you start to reckon with *facts.

It’s about the ground you stand on: is it solid? Will it bear your weight?

And if you can’t recognise, won’t stand up for, or are campaigning against objective *facts;

.@scotgov you’re on sinking sand.

#WHM