My opinion:
(open rant)
Americans started telling themselves a sort of story about how modern liberal democracy is about unlimited personal autonomy as opposed to a neat balancing act for min-maxing monarchy, aristocracy and classical democracy, trying to get the advantages of each while minimizing the downsides.
Once you believe there is an arrow of history, and it points towards "more personal autonomy," without any limiting principle, then it's like a blackhole where the singularity is a point of infinite personal autonomy. No one looks at the singularity though (or backwards to before they started falling towards it): Americans are pragmatists born in a revolution. Backwards is by definition into darkness, and "what happens if you keep on this path for a 100 years" sounds like "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
So, the people that are going along are the ones that are closer to the singularity ("ahead of their time"). It seems plausible that the next step (after normalization of contraception, extra-marital sex, divorce, homosexuality, and homosexual marriage) is the normalization of transexuality, and the step after that is transexuality for children.
Ironically, this is the first to involve children, and it hinges on the same logic that causes the outrage around transexuals in women's sports: because puberty causes irreservable, sex-specific changes to the body, and because "I'm born this way," the success of the transition hinges upon doing it before puberty.
Which is horrifying to anyone stepping back and looking at the full scope, but if you are looking at nothing but the trend line, it seems like the natural next steps.
(shrugs) It's a slippery slope, and slippery slopes are a logical fallacy, but that only means I can't prove the above like a syllogism. People *can* renounce it in horror and turn back. I used the metaphor of a black hole, but there's no event horizon.
But, there is something like a gravity well: past actual bigotries make the historicist story plausible, and past excuses sounded just like the ones being used now.
People just have to have the moral courage to see the dichotomy "truth-as-I-see-it vs the zeitgeist," and choose truth.
(close rant)
>From: (zerosequioso) at 08/16/22 12:49:03 on wss://relay.damus.io
>---------------
>It's hard to understand why hospitals would promote such madness. Do you think it is just money, ideology, or a combination? Seems like a blatant violation of the Hippocratic Oath whatever it is.
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