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Maybe. I'll have to cogitate a bit more. I mean, the inmates don't get an income, so that cost is being spread over prison staff, facility costs, and consumables right? I could see a really high investment cost for initial construction of the prison, but for OpEx it seems high. I mean, I'd...

This has to be poor wording, so I'd ask you to elaborate or rephrase. Right now, this reads as if you're saying that other people threatening you has more impact on you than you threatening other people has impact on you. Which is a bit of a "no shit" statement as well as begging the question...

What is "social violence"?

Unless my math is way off... that's $155,000 per person annually. That's more than double the median income. That seems like an excessive amount to spend. Personal opinion: prisons shouldn't be private entities. There should be no profit motive in incarceration.

Why do you feel the need to immediately resort to ad hominems and malice? Why do you feel that it is reasonable or appropriate to assume that anyone with a concern is an evil person? Honestly, just skip all of the attempts at reason and go ahead and call people evil apostates who should be...

Not really. We'd feel pretty bad about showing the entire world how completely fake China's claimed military prowess is.

What state and season is that room temperature in, and do we have AC? Just sayin'... Phoenix in August is not an insubstantial threshold.

Agreed, although I've also always been partial to NM's.

There is no question at all that women commit violent and sexual crimes at significantly lower rates.

If an adult decides they don't want kids, I have no problem with that. Lots of us don't have kids, many don't want kids. I only have a problem when people are advocating for medical interventions in children who are still developing, as the resultant sterilization REMOVES that choice from them.

This is an odd take. I get what you're saying in the following bits, but even so, it seems like it's heavily influenced by an ideological desire rather than by observation. Yes, same-sex attracted people and animals have existed pretty much for as long as we've recorded history. But they...

Tertiary sex characteristics if you like, or more reasonably "sex correlated" traits rather than "sex linked" traits. Sex correlated traits are, generally speaking, those that reflect dimorphism and are often assumed to be the result of sexual selection. They are not directly the result of...

Incorrect. All I'm doing is allowing for that fact that humans are fallible and aren't always going to get it right. Let's play out your positions in tandem. You first say "If there is anyone that is ambiguous, you can't divide the world into male and female". You also say "if it's okay if...

Heap fallacy taken to an extreme.

No, I do NOT believe that the brain correlates more strongly with sex than the actual sexual reproductive system. In fact, the brain is one of the LEAST dimorphic organs in our entire bodies. My position is that "male brain" and "female brain" are largely absurd and regressive notions. To the...

"Woman" is an observation of biological reality, not a concept of social construction.

Lower testosterone in males, perhaps. No testosterone on the other hand? Not so sure. No testosterone from the onset of puberty? Hard disagree, for reasons I've given multiple times. I agree that your thought process is more logical than Jarhyn's. I certainly don't think your thought...

I think your entire model is overly simplistic, and you fail to incorporate the necessary role of an analog perception system into how you view consciousness. You severely underestimate how much the body as a physical thing influences our thoughts, and you consistently ignore the role of...

I'd really appreciate you walking the walk on this, and making an effort to avoid making those who disagree with you feel bad. Perhaps by avoiding calling people nazis and accusing them of blood libel, as a starting point. Once you've got that under your belt, perhaps you could consider...

On the other hand... I expect that a process trait arose that seeks to accept and work within the confines of one's physical reality, and that the particular behavior of not seeking to mutilate the body in order to conform to a hypothetical ideal influenced by transhumanist and post modern...