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We went over this already. Bathrooms are not based on gender, because it isn't quantifiable.
Because we have bathrooms labeled "men" and "women" and thus need to have some quantifiable means to determine who is allowed to use each.
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No. pretty much everyone uses bathrooms based on their sex. The issue is that for 99.8% (or whatever) of the population, sex and gender happen to be the same.
How can you know this, if 99.8% of the population have the same gender as their sex? All we can say is that the overwhelming majority use the bathroom that matches both their gender *and* their sex.
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It's funny to me that you keep repeating this, despite more and more people coming and saying they have no problem sharing a bathroom, or even locker room with trans people. In fact, i don't think anyone here has actually said otherwise.
If by "more and more" you mean like 3, sure. On a forum that isn't exactly representative of the population as a whole on issues like this. The very fact that we have separate men and women's restrooms suggests that you're wrong.
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Like blacks? Like gays?
Yes. Or are you arguing that the same social rules that apply to the rest of us should not apply to people who are black or gay? Yeah, I get the point you were trying to make. It's a poor one though.
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Rules only exist to the point that they can be enforced. If you have no means to test that the rule has been broken, then you can't enforce it.
You can't. Great argument for why the concept of hate crimes is stupid as hell.
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How do you prove self defense?
Um... Based on physical evidence and witness statements? How do you prove any crime?
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There's all kinds of rules/laws that can't really be quantified.
No. There really aren't. Or at least there should not be. You're also making a horribly fallacious argument. Because something I don't agree with exists, I should accept something else I don't agree with? That's not a terribly convincing argument. "Well, last night we forced you to eat brussel sprouts, so tonight you should have no complaint when we force you to eat boiled eggplant".
Edited, Mar 29th 2013 3:54pm by gbaji