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There's absolutely nothing wrong with them not wanting to. What's wrong is a society that for 18 years tells them "you don't want to do this, you want to do tha
by projectileboy 18y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with them not wanting to. What's wrong is a society that for 18 years tells them "you don't want to do this, you want to do that".
- yummyfajitas 18y ago"Society" is a concept we need to banish from these discussions. "Society" exists at a higher level of abstraction than what we are discussing. A particular woman may want babies because women around her said "babies rock, all women want babies." Was it wrong for her mother to discuss the rewards of motherhood? A particular man may like computers because his father told him how cool it is to bend machines to your will. Was that wrong? If neither of those acts is wrong, then what is wrong with "society" telling people stuff?
- silencio 18y agoThose two are not wrong, but from personal experience, what's been happening is too many people telling me that CS is a bad choice based on my gender and not my interests or anything else. That is wrong.
- yummyfajitas 18y agoI've been told by many people that I should play basketball not based on my abilities (I have terrible eye-hand coordination) but based on my height. Was that wrong in any moral or normative sense? I'll grant that the underlying positive belief is incorrect, but what makes giving out well intentioned (if bad) advice wrong?