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It seems like a reasonable approach. However, "decision makers" in the western world have broadly given up on making actual decisions and only being managers, and delegated this like so many other things to the power and joy of the unfettered free market.

Also, they are generally not personally too affected so they don't have an incentive to enforce this approach.

In my limited experience, they are not interested in factual truth as much as they just want their opinion and biases validated. When push comes to shove, they'll fall back to "everyone's entitled to their opinion" (which they don't apply consistently to others with differing opinions).

If you don't see how there's a similarity in the othering of non-white boys leading to consider them to be grown up earlier, I think you might be falling prey to some racist bias yourself.

I'm all for taking context into consideration but biology doesn't care about cultural relativism, an 11 year old human boy can't make fully-informed decisions. That was the point being made and the point stands.

I hope you know I'm not blaming you. I went from "I think vegetarians have a point" to "well, I guess I'm vegetarian now" to "fuck being given dairy at every event, I'll be vegan now", so I can't fault your for reducing over time.

(I could say I then went to "burn-the-abattoirs vegan", but in truth, burning the slaughterhouses seemed like the obvious moral position once you see what they do in them.)

Anyway, I support your efforts to reduce the pain and suffering.

That's really not what unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth is saying or the point they are making, which is a fair one. Kicking it out of way by waving a big "cultural relativism" sign doesn't do anything to address it.

If one was so inclined, one could even argue that whole idea that an 11 year old indigenous boy is somehow more grown up and "a man" is essentially the same as the racist outlook that considers black boys to no longer be kids but dangerous men when they get closer to their teens.

on They're all the same · c/atheism · 1 pts · 7d

I kind of understand these pseudo Christian American nationalists to be so far gone they'd immediately think that's not Jesus. He's not white enough and says progressive things.