Unethical self-enslavement to the sex-change industry

 

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual appreciation:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer & practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

Selected theme from this week

Unethical self-enslavement to the sex-change industry

When a person chooses to change their sex, they are dedicating their life to the sex-change industry. It matters not that they are creating jobs for all the services they will need during their lifetime. It matters not that they are creating bureaucracies to oversee the services. It matters not that they are inspiring activist groups to oppose the expansion of government. It matters not that they are creating gender-change judgeships to adjudicate the law suits. It matters not that they are creating gender-change law offices.

What matters is the choice to become a slave to a new industry.

Quora

quora.com/How-can-responsible-citizenship-stop-the-violation-of-human-rights? by Thandeka Lubisi

In responsible-citizenship, each person neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person or institution. Of necessity& justice, the responsible-citizens constrain dependent fellow-citizens. Responsible-human-independence (RHI) emerges as personal self-interest.

quora.com/Who-can-bring-justice-and-peace-to-the-world? by Promisec

Utopia seems unachievable. An achievable better future seems possible if most citizens practice, facilitate& encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) to safety& security. Then, most persons can& may reliably pursue the happiness they perceive as their lives unfold rather than submit to someone else’s view for them.

We know that only the individual has the opportunity, the power, the energy, the authority, and the-duty-to-self to pursue safety& security in their way of living. Not every person accepts their opportunity. Many persons choose a dependency: indolence, crime, tyranny, evil& worse.

Neither the-God nor government can usurp the human condition: a person can& may choose responsible-human-independence (RHI). I speculate “the-God” is whatever constrains the consequences of each human choice. Perhaps it is the laws of physic& its-progeny rather than an intelligent being.

Humankind started with abject ignorance and gradually discovers the-ineluctable-truth and how to positively benefit. (Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.) At every moment in time, the existing “ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, can& may advance necessity& justice and thereby approach safety& security.

When about 2/3 of inhabitants accept and practice RHI, safety& security may begin to repress 2022’s divergent chaos.

quora.com/Which-one-of-your-good-causes-would-you-encourage-me-to-participate? by Graham C Lindsay

Join our cause. It is A Civic People of the United States: Individuals collaborating for the-good. “Civic” refers practice, facilitation, and encouragement of reliable human connections& transactions more than conformance to social and legal rules. Our Louisiana education-corporation is non-profit, non-revenue. We manage the blogs A Civic People (development) and cipbr.blogger.com (weekly comments).

The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to or from any person or government. Fellow citizens who solicit money to coerce government into action that is more erroneous than ourselves and our Posterity can& may take in self-interest to the-good go wanting.

The republican principles to responsible-human-independence (RHI), framed in the 1787 U.S. draft Constitution, may be practiced by anyone who comprehends them. The more erroneous, states-negotiated U.S.-Constitution was ratified by Congress in 1791.

quora.com/unanswered/What-are-your-experiences-that-can-relate-to-the-concept-of-justice-as-fairness? by Emjeyy Paloo

Like so many scholars, John Rawls wrote to competing political philosophers rather than to homo sapiens, the recent humankind (the latest mutation in 0.3 of 7 million years’ evolution).

Experience& discovery of the-ineluctable-truth through 2022 informs us that necessity& justice is essential to survival, because political utopia is unachievable. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. Civic-citizens accept that they can& may act for the-good as they perceive it, despite this corrupt world, rather than wait indefinitely for the perfect civilization.

Each homo sapiens can& may develop the civic-integrity that is required to earn the lifestyle that satisfies their self-interest and pay taxes, in order to practice, facilitate, and encourage necessity& justice to everyone. Civic-citizens practice responsible-human-independence (RHI), funding government to provide civil order. If they are religious, they privately fund any religious-institution they want.

However, not everyone chooses RHI. Some humans use their individual power, energy, authority, and opportunity to develop a dependency -- such as indolence, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. They neglect the self-interest of RHI, choosing dependency for reasons they may understand.

Utopians honestly urge the-good to everyone and work for its indefinite achievement. Civic-citizens honestly perceive they can& may act for the-good allowing the corrupt world to reform on its schedule.

Rawls attempted to influence people to wait for an “achievable utopia”. Andrew Koppelman, in “Rawls and the Market” dispels Rawls’ theory.

quora.com/What-is-Natural-Law-3? by Freidrich Gildard

“Natural law” is a vulnerable term from theological& civil squabbling: personal-God versus the-God if not whatever constrains human choice. Appreciation to the-God rather than a personal-God seems prudent.

Citing John Locke’s God, as specified in “Two Treatises of Government”, 1690,

THE great end of men's entering into society . . . the first and fundamental positive law of all common-wealths is the establishing of the legislative power; as the first and fundamental natural law . . . is the preservation of the society . . .  and . . . of every [viable] person in it. This legislative . . . sacred and unalterable . . . which is absolutely necessary to its being a law,* the consent of the society . . .*The lawful power of making laws . . . belonging so properly unto the same entire societies . . . received from God.

I accept neither 1) Locke’s God nor 2) “sacred and unalterable” legislation. I think the power that constrains human choice is the laws of physics& its progeny. It is human-being’s duty to discover the-ineluctable-truth and use it positively. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, which is beyond “unalterable”. And that whatever-constrains-human-choice is sacred is an opinion about the God-mystery. It’s a Locke-constructed leap of faith I cannot take.

The 1774 founders of the USA wrote “the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God” perhaps to partially rebuke Locke plus to claim their-God would defeat the English-God, the reformed-Catholic Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The founders further rebuked Locke by false-promising “unalienable Rights . . . Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” rather than Locke’s “to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate”, Locke having defined a person as a property of Locke-God.

Homo sapiens, the recent, non-unalterable human-being, can& may set aside “natural law” in order to focus on the laws of physics; ignore mystery rather than neglect integrity; establish responsible-human-independence (RHI) at last. Accept that whatever constrains human choice will not usurp the human condition: human-beings can& may choose civic-integrity; human-beings can& may practice, facilitate& encourage safety& security to civic-citizens on earth.

To Sean Sheehy:

I think your comment would be enrichened with specificity about “God”. Do you refer to your-God or the-God of the God-mystery? If the latter, could the-God be whatever constrains the consequences of each human choice? Could the laws of physics be constraining everything including lies& fiction? Is it our task to discover the laws of physics and apply them positively? If so, is safety& security on earth solely human-being’s responsibility?

quora.com/Must-we-respect-the-bad-culture-in-our-society? by Muhammad Farhan Abdillah

Absolutely not.

The human-being has the duty to neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person. The civic-citizen knows this and appreciates fellow citizens who practice, facilitate, and encourage safety& security.

This appreciation principle operates mutually among citizens who share it. Thereby, warm greeting is as usual as internal focus so intense there is no greeting – only privacy. However, not every citizen appreciates life.

The moment there is offense, appreciation gives way to caution. If caution cannot be overcome, appreciation dissipates to apprehension; and apprehension to departure. When there is no recourse, there is no chance for respect.

Appreciation’s greatest strength is that it does not accommodate harm. The person who advocates respect due to mere existence does not appreciate human-being.

quora.com/Do-you-agree-with-If-you-want-peace-understand-war? by Jolina Recta

I have several concerns. I convert this ancient thought to: If you want safety& security, understand defenses. I consider indoctrination more threatening than war. For example, I doubt time on the Internet and much prefer transparent conversation.

First, peace represents utopia, which is unattainable, and is therefore an un-civic goal. “Civic” expresses reliability in human connections& transactions. Each human-being can& may behave so as to aid establishment of utopia. However, some persons miss either the opportunity, or the power, or the energy, or the authority to acquire the civic-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence (RHI). Therefore, civic-citizens have the duty to constrain dependent fellow-citizens. Necessity& justice require the rule of law, law enforcement, and continual research to increase statutory reliability. With varying qualities of both civic-citizens and dependent fellow-citizen, humankind can& may pursue safety& security so that most citizens may responsibly pursue the happiness they personally envision rather than submit to someone else’s wish for them.

Second, war seems a global staple no entity can& would constrain: most nations can avoid war but some do not want to. Consequently, the civic-citizenry monitors military power, in order to invent and maintain adequate defenses. As in all other functions, the civic-citizen earns the money to pay for RHI including infrastructure such as domestic law enforcement and national defense. The civic-citizen aids law enforcement first by observing the law. Passive citizens and resident aliens get a free ride on the provision of safety& security.

The free-ride is an artifact of the human condition: each person can& may develop a dependency& risk constraint rather than practice, facilitate& encourage RHI.

quora.com/What-is-the-right-to-life? by Ashley Mavunga

“Right to life” is nonsense that has been preserved in Western thought so elites can pick fellow-citizens’ pockets by maintaining John-Locke-God as specified in “Two Treatises of Government”, 1690. Therein, Locke wrote, “. . . for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property”. As Locke-God property, a person cannot be terminated, even by choice.

Scholars don’t quote Locke-God, because they would be exposing the motives of the elites who pay them to preserve more persuasive Lockeanisms, such as “the common good”, “consent of the governed”, “liberty”, and Jefferson’s substitute for “property” (of Locke-God), “pursuit of happiness”.

Government-elites claim they preserve rights only to keep civic-citizens from accepting, practicing, facilitating, and encouraging the obvious: only the individual can constrain chaos in their way of living so as to increase their chance to preserve their life.

The U.S. is in divergent chaos. Civic-citizens can& may heed a 5,500 year-old suggestion:  Mankind is solely responsible for peace on earth. And not everyone accepts that, so those who do must aid the rule of law so as to constrain those who for various reasons do not aid the rule of law.

Pleading to church or state is no substitute for responsible-human-independence (RHI).

quora.com/What-are-some-unwritten-laws-that-you-follow? by Hellosaurus

I advocate transparency in trying to benefit from the ideas from Jesus that are affirmed by my experiences& observations. (Lots of people do that, whether they articulate it or not.) For example, develop a perfect person before death. Therefore, I follow the unwritten law: don’t expose your life& property to a non-civic-Christian and don’t make money on the name “Jesus”.

quora.com/Without-consulting-any-reference-what-is-ethics? by Maria Elina Elcarte

Ethics is self-interested action according to the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. Often the actor can& may admit not knowing the-ineluctable-evidence or how to perceive it. In that case, the prudent person chooses not to act, unless their life is being attacked.

For example, an entrepreneur attempts to persuade someone to change their gender. The person researches to discover how they may move past the sex-change services unto independent living. They conclude that enslavement to the gender-change industry is likely. They decline the gender change, even though they don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

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facebook.com/phil.beaver.52 May 18, 2022

When people cite God is it their-God or the-God of the God-mystery? If the latter, could the-God be whatever constrains the consequences of each human choice? Is it our task to discover the laws of physics and apply them positively? If so, is safety& security solely human-being’s responsibility? Can& may each person practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity more than civil-obedience?

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7 May 18, 2022

Chris, I agree with your concern and expression "let our children have a childhood". Getting specific about how to do that, I'm thinking the best process is for parents to educate their children in sex, lies, and video before allowing them into public spaces and activities, especially social media.

Furthermore, reform from the tradition of teaching children fantasies& perceptions they must unlearn. Teach children that Santa Claus is a vehicle for commercial greed that plays on society's attraction to a season of good will to human kind. Teach that the earth's rotation at 1000 mph surface speed unhides the sun each morning rather than "the sun comes up" and traverses "the heavens". Teach them human reproduction, mutual attraction chemistry, female& male spousal commitment to her-family through grandchildren or more, public-service-decades a vehicle for self-discovery more than to earn a responsible way of living, and to practice, facilitate, and encourage the intention to perfect civic-integrity before dying.

Judging from children I met, some parents seem to be taking charge, notwithstanding my approach. There are many excellent children and adolescents in 2022. I trust them to address evil much better than I could.

I'm convinced that evil, empowered by the Internet, is at last defeating religion. That may not be bad, because it makes clear to humankind that neither government, nor institutional-God, nor private-God can usurp the human-being's self-duty to practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI). Human-being civil-discipline can& may yield-to civic-integrity.

Government& God can be ignored. But whatever constrains the consequences of human choice is ineluctable. I think it is the laws of physics& its-progeny. That is, the laws of physics cannot be avoided, changed, or resisted.

Viewed this way, 2022 may be the year of the-ineluctable-truth and a pivotal year in homo sapiens' history.

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Safety& security on earth is solely the responsibility of persons who develop the civic-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence (RHI).

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

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