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  • In Iran, gender reassignment is legal, and they’ll even change the birth certificate to match, from what I learned a decade ago.

    Homosexuality, however, is a capital offense, so many gay people are pressured to transition.

    Some conservative societies seem to have the attitude that it’s better to go from one role with rigid expectations to another than it is to fail to meet the expectations of your original role.













  • As an uninvolved party, after reading the thread, I understand that you feel frustrated and misunderstood. But I’m sorry to say that I feel like the failure of reading comprehension was on your part more than theirs.

    It seems like the majority of people who responded to you argued that there are not two evils, but two parts to the same whole evil.

    No one, that I saw, claimed you were saying that the Democrats were not evil. But the disagreement was that you see the Republicans and Democrats as two evils, while your opponents see them as one.

    Whether or not you agree, that seems like a logically coherent belief to hold.


  • Having skimmed the original paper about the trolley problem, I think what the author was trying to illustrate was the difference between direct and indirect harm.

    If you redirect the trolley, you’re not trying to kill the man on the other track. You’re trying to save the five on the first track by directing the trolley away from them. While the other man may die because of this, there’s always the possibility he’ll escape on his own.

    Whereas if the judge sentences an innocent man to death, that is choosing to kill him. The innocent man MUST die for the outcome the judge intends. So there’s culpability that doesn’t exist in the trolley scenario.

    In one case you’re accepting a bad outcome for one person as a side effect, in the other you’re pursuing it as a necessary step.