Please don't confuse my meaning. I 100% support all humans right to choose their own sexual preference!

     Unlike that certain democratic campaign staffer, I do NOT wish to send ANYBODY to "re-education" camps.

     As part of this memetic work, I modified the Pepperidge Farm meme with futuristic background and, if you are paying attention, you will be able to tell I slightly aged him.

     The premise is that in the year 20XX the general consensus is that there are more genders than there were in Pokemon Red or Blue. Who knows?

    I don't really believe this to be the case because I can't really fathom the world being any stranger than it is now but people surprise me everyday.

_{Here's a fun one from today. Florida man strikes again!}

_{Yes, the meme technological backdrop looks advance and it's up to you whether you believe that would be the case because of postmodern thinking or despite it. I would go with the latter.}

My position is simple.

     One's sexual preference is in a completely distinct category from ones biological gender. Whereas one is fluid or dynamic, the other is static and determined via our genetic composition.

     These is not hateful. This is not violence. That is my belief according to my own understanding of man.

_{Meet EdBassMaster from Youtube. This is his character Tequila Johnson. Very funny stuff. Check it out!}

No, I'm not referring to fringe cases such as hermaphrodites. We can assent to their gender claims as there is a physiological basis.👌

But if the origin is ontological presuppositions... I'm not biting.

     There should not be a functional difference in either case but one often attempts to coerce others to intellectually assent to that ontology whether we do or not. This poses a problem to anybody that bears convictions to the contrary, be them secular or religious.

And that is NOT cool in my book

     Tolerance is a 2-way street, my friends, and often, in our quest for knowledge and truth, we may arrive at starkly different conclusions. Sometimes our differences can be reconciled or we otherwise can coexist in peace. This is not to say their our certain beliefs or convictions that are not only mutually exclusive but come with implications of hostility.

     Certain ideas cannot coexist without friction in other words. That's to put it lightly. To be more blunt, certain ideas naturally put people at enmity with one another. Until our collective beliefs are uniform but more importantly the truth. I surmise this conflict will always exist.

Presuppositions are like assholes. We all have them.

    Presuppositions are the things we believe about that which is metaphysical, that which transcends the material but are beyond the grasp of empirical inquiry.

     For example, take the the law of non-contradiction from the classical rules of logic. The rational mind knows this trutb intuitively. Take the following claims:

• A equals B
  And
• A does NOT equal B

     We cannot validate this in a laboratory yet we know that both claims cannot simultaneously be true as they necessarily contradict each other. This is what I mean by ideas being mutually exclusive

Unlike Burger King, we can't have it our way...

     That is if our way entails believing mutually exclusive truth claims are concurrently true. Internal consistency of belief is the hallmark of a sound mind.

     Having such a mind is a goal for which we should ALWAYS be striving. Such may require an individual to humble themself on occasion and concede to something perhaps we didn't know before. In the realm of science, this is more simple but we must acknowledge is that scientific consensus, not unlike our blockchain, is something that is subject to change contingent on new discoveries, information and data.

     But let's not deceive ourselves into assuming the infallibility of the humans involved in these processes. Sometimes error may be the result of miscalculations or perhaps failures of equipment. In other instances and such has been recorded in history, they are more deliberate in nature such as hoaxes. That is why it is all the more important we be scrupulous and discerning with respect to the things presented to us as absolute truths. We should be very careful the things we choose to accept as a priori. (A given)

     I will concede that some that subscribe to postmodern gender theory may not necessarily assert that more than 150 genders exist as a given. Yes, I was being hyperbolic in the meme but it was intended to illustrate the point.

     Another point I would like to make is that often the same people that assert more than 2 genders exist will appeal to alleged scientific fact in other areas. I'll leave you to speculate precisely what I mean. The bottom line is we can't force another to subscribe to our presuppositions or ontology but people can sure as hell be forced into lip service. Is that what we want?

Of course not!

     Anyways, I hope this post was more intellectually stimulating to you than my typical writings.

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