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Yes, but there again you are conflating three separate questions:

(1) Do we have choices?

(2) Are our choices "free"?

(3) Should we be held morally responsible for our choices?

How we answer (1) and (2) doesn't necessarily determine how we answer (3). And if (3) is your real point, maybe you should focus on that, rather than confusing things by conflating it with (1) and (2).



I just don't think people being religious is different in kind from people being trans. (Degree, yes, but not kind.)

I'm saying as an irreligious trans person who sees the wreckage that fundamentalist religion is causing on my community at the moment.


And if that’s your ultimate point, I’m not going to disagree with you.

But I still think several things you said on the way here were put in a rather imprecise and conflationary way.




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