X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fagreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md;h=ee0c67ffa4e6fce88339a56203655699dc14fe53;hp=f6bee701d14a799f1e7344e3458f1fbfe707a53f;hb=e9e438c05044f12318c1b61869376b17fd777a7c;hpb=5294534dc0a18304c9ef71860e1ffaf30168cc14 diff --git a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md index f6bee70..ee0c67f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md +++ b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ When piously appealing to the feelings of people describing reasons they do not I agree that a language convention in which pronouns map to hair color doesn't seem great. The people in this world should probably coordinate on switching to a better convention, if they can figure out how. -But this convention as given, a demand to be referred to as having a hair color _that one does not have_ seems outrageous to me! +But taking this convention as given, a demand to be referred to as having a hair color _that one does not have_ seems outrageous to me! It makes sense to object to the convention forcing a binary choice in the "halfway between two central points" case. That's an example of genuine nuance brought on by a genuine complication to a system that _falsely_ assumes discrete hair colors.