A Transgender Atheist Army For The Antichrist

I apologize.

I did the thing I thought you were doing. I misread your comment as taking what I said and coming to the wrong conclusion that I don't support trans people in the military.

In fact, here is an open invitation for anybody to give a legit and well warranted reason as to why trans people shouldn't be able to serve in the military. The shower concern is relatively minor and I feel is something that can be easily dealt with.

I am very glad that you came back with a nicer response than I gave. 

The world is what it is and we can only act according to the facts of reality. You were talking about "other worlds" or something and that is where I get lost.

I would argue that many of our "choices" aren't actually choices, but are pre-determined.

My view is that you are trying to make this sound more deep than it actually is.

It's a little bit complicated. Freedom of choice is real in a way because you can clearly steer yourself to do something new even if it is all predetermined. There are, of course, choices that we make without deliberating very much but I'm thinking more of the ones where we do. I didn't mean to make it sound deep but I have a very formal way of talking. My idea is basically the philosophical equivalent of a goldilocks zone. The first thing I meant was that if it were necessary to always have a perfect choice then our reality wouldn't exist. The reason I was referring to the 'material' reality and not the 'social' one is that all of our social predicaments are a reflection of the underlying material reality. 


If you want to see where I'm coming from when I say that if it weren't for imperfect choices then our reality wouldn't exist, read Stanislaw Lem's Golem XIV story. Our whole human and animal existence is a chemical response to the overabundance of oxygen created as waste by  photosynthesizing bacteria. if we lived in a more just ecosystem we would get our energy from the sun and our bodies would be made from minerals gotten directly from the soil. Our whole existence is a result of life evolving to adapt to the limitations set by previous life on Earth which evolved without the intellect to shape the earth's ecosystem on the whole . I don't know if there is another actual reality where things work out easier than ours but I need to make a comparison to something. All I wanted to say is that IF there is a more orderly existence without tough choices like between preserving wildlife's habitat or mining metals from a mountain, that we would either be forced to choose only an ideal choice or we would choose between equally fine choices such as picking between life on one of two different identical star systems which have different geographies but both support life and no matter which place you chose to live you'd be happy all the time and live an equally long time. Can I say for certain that such a thing is somehow 'wrong'? No, only that from a perspective of choice that it seems rather boring because there's either a right way to do something and thus an ideal state of being that one can only disobey or there's no significant choices to be made at all and thus that our reality being so non-ideal makes it more appealing to live in in a certain dis-attached ironic way because it gives our life a character that only imperfection can.

There was something else I wanted to say but it slipped my mind and this seems to cover it about as well as I can manage. When I said "many possible worlds to live in" take it like this: There would only be a universe where everything worked out fine and we wouldn't exist, and just about everything we know wouldn't either.

I tried my best to explain my POV but I guess my thought process is a little too abstract for some. I figured somebody with Asperger's might get it. Perhaps my thought process is a bit too complex on the subject for me to explain it easily enough to the average person.

I'd do that but I don't think that it would help much. Maybe it would make more sense if I did a video with diagrams.

Okay, I read it over again.

Is all you are saying is that the way reality is in this universe makes it more interesting than if we lived in a non-existent "perfect" world? And that if the world had came about in a different way, then this reality wouldn't exist? I would agree with that obviously.

What would a perfect world even be? If we lived in this imaginary world wouldn't even know it was boring or that we were missing anything? It might be impossible that a world like that could even exist.

Am I glad we don't live in a world like that? Yes, but only because it sounds very boring from the perception of someone living in a non-perfect world.

If this is what you are talking about then you wrote it out way more complicated than it needed to be.

I understand all that. Meaning that after I figured out your initial point, the response above makes sense.

The disconnect between me and you is that you find more meaning in it than I do. I often make bad choices, knowing they are bad choices and just not caring. There is of course reasons for why I do this, but I am not willing to get into that right now. 

I am hanging on to the little bit in this life that I give a shit about.

Maybe I am off base here and this has nothing to do with what you are talking about. 

It would seem that way.

I appreciate the effort.

   Biology deals in facts.  Although psychology and elements of psychiatry are often considered "science" they can deal in far less readily measured parameters.  Basing a definition of gender on biology is in fact a very scientific and practical way of doing things.