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> If you think there is one single fundamental essence that makes you you more than anything else, you’re at risk. Pretty bad take right at the end. We're supp
by 1970-01-01 1y ago
> If you think there is one single fundamental essence that makes you you more than anything else, you’re at risk.
Pretty bad take right at the end. We're supposed to be ashamed of biological strengths? I have red hair and take pain very well[1], but I cannot speak to that being a strength in life because it's wrong to do so? There are other non-extreme examples of biological differences being strengths but that example alone dissolves the flippant conclusion.
[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-finds-link-between-red-hair-pain-threshold https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-f...
- hat_monger 1y ago[dead]
- foxyv 1y ago> If you think there is one single fundamental essence that makes you you more than anything else You mentioned two things. Also you never claimed you were "more" than everything else. Just that you were better at two things than some people.
- 1970-01-01 1y ago?
- foxyv 1y agoTheir argument is that, when you try to make value judgements on human life using some mystical single element, you are failing at the first hurdle. Just like MLK said, judge men based on the content of their character, not on the basis of their skin. You construed that as "Be ashamed of your biological strengths." Just kinda weird.
- 1970-01-01 1y agoWe must be reading different concluding sentences.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago> We're supposed to be ashamed of biological strengths? No, you misread the sentence. They put two "you"s in it because your red hair and pain tolerance do not make you "you" any more than your daily decisions about how to live your life. It's got nothing to do with "better" or "stronger".