-> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
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-> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
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-> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
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-We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want every
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-... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
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-There's this an empricial structure to the world that _doesn't go away_
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-Psychological sex differences are
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-http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
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-I _want_ to believe that sex differences in personality and interests are small-to-nonexistent. I _want_ to believe that trans women are women.
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-out of the three women present—
+We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want all people to be free to maximize their potential, unencumbered by oppressive cultural institutions specifying roles and destinies in advance. We want everyone to be judged on her or his _own_ merits rather than treated as a representative of their race or sex. We believe that if a trait is virtuous in a man, it _has_ to be equally virtuous in a woman—as a matter of sheer logical _consistency_.