Not all views are equal. Some views are so horrendous it is our moral duty to ostracize their believers.
I think we should only ostracize people like you, who want to ostracize others (i.e. those that practice intolerance).
Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
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Re: Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm late to this conversation, but your CoC is problematic. To participate in LambdaConf, participants must pledge their allegiance to your Code of Conduct. That's fine, except for the following part of the CoC that mandates the following: "That I shall embrace and celebrate the abundant diversity in the human species, and refuse to feel threatened by those different from me;" This is a highly problematic statement.…
I don't think you're reading this correctly. The CoC asks you to celebrate diversity itself , not any (nor all) particular opinion that is part of this diversity. In addition, you do realize that pedophilia is a sexual orientation, right? Nobody chooses to be attracted to people they can't ever legally have sex with. And just as there's nothing wrong with being gay, there's nothing wrong with being a pedophile (keepi…
That's all kinds of wrong. Having sexual feelings for children is a medical disorder and people who have it are generally urged to get medical help. So I'm afraid that, yes, there is indeed something wrong with being sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
Of course, you miss my point on this anyway - there are people out there who believe that forcing themselves on children is right. There are also those who believe that rape is justifiable - just ask Daryush Valizadeh.
Furthermore, I am indeed interpreting this correctly. I am saying that if you want to force those who don't celebrate diversity from joining your organization, your are rejecting the a part of the diversity that you are celebrating. Let's restate this: if I say that I say that there are some things that humans promote and undertake are so horrendous that I cannot accept them under any circumstances, then I am implicitly rejecting the notion that diversity is to be celebrated. I am in fact rejecting diversity - as almost every single human being does to some degree.
What is basically being pushed here is a form of moral relativism, and taken to it's logical limits it's entirely self-contradictory.
Re: Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you're reading this correctly. The CoC asks you to celebrate diversity itself , not any (nor all) particular opinion that is part of this diversity. In addition, you do realize that pedophilia is a sexual orientation, right? Nobody chooses to be attracted to people they can't ever legally have sex with. And just as there's nothing wrong with being gay, there's nothing wrong with being a pedophile (keepi…
That's all kinds of wrong. Having sexual feelings for children is a medical disorder and people who have it are generally urged to get medical help. So I'm afraid that, yes, there is indeed something wrong with being sexually attracted to prepubescent children. Of course, you miss my point on this anyway - there are people out there who believe that forcing themselves on children is right. There are also those who be…
> Having sexual feelings for children is a medical disorder and people who have it are generally urged to get medical help. So I'm afraid that, yes, there is indeed something wrong with being sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
Obviously. We should chemically castrate them. Like Alan Turing. Being attracted to anything but adults of the opposite sex is wrong and sick.
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