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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • One of the biggest problems would be enforcement of that license. With driving, cops are everywhere and regularly pull people over to check their license. With hunting, there are game wardens that patrol hunting areas and check the licenses of hunters.

    With procreation, people can have unprotected sex anywhere and typically in private. You’d either need to give some group of people permanent access to enter any private space at any time (to randomly check for unlicensed sex), or force everyone without a license to take birth control or be sterilized. Unfortunately, none of those options are ethical.


  • I meant outed as being queer. OP said that if you do queerphobic things as a way to hide that you’re queer, you deserve to be outed. I’m asking if a queer person who does queerphobic things–not with the intention of hiding that they’re queer, but because they genuinely believe that god gave everyone “queer desires” as a morality test–should be outed as queer.

    For example, I’ve seen the argument that some gay priests are homophobic because they have “gay desires” and they assume that everyone else has them too. One of those priests said something to the effect of “all men want to have sex with other men, but it’s our job not to”. Of course, most men actually don’t want to have sex with other men–if you do, you’re just gay–but those priests might now know that. I’m conflicted as to whether that’s a reasonable justification for homophobia, but I’m curious what OP thinks about it.



  • Disabled people should have to ask for a seat on public transit if one isn’t available; other people shouldn’t immediately get up when a clearly disabled person boards, nor should anyone expect them to without being asked. Similarly, you have no right to criticize someone (who doesn’t appear to be disabled) if they’re sitting in a seat designated for disabled people and they don’t get up when a visibly disabled person gets on.

    First of all, the disabled person might not even want the seat. If they do, it’s reasonable to expect them (as an adult) to advocate for their own needs (i.e. ask). It’s actually more offensive to assume that every elderly or otherwise visibly-disabled person is incapable of that.

    Second of all, not all disabilities are easily visible. I’m a mid-twenties guy and I was born with an auto-immune disorder that sometimes makes it very difficult or painful to stand/walk. It’s happened multiple times that strangers on the bus have chewed me out for not giving up my seat, even though (statistically) there were probably other people sitting in disability-designated seats that needed that seat less than me and the visibly disable person who just boarded. I can’t fucking believe I have arthritis in my twenties, either. I’m just trying to cope with the shitty circumstances I was given and the last thing I need is to constantly have to justify myself to ignorantly self-righteous strangers.