It is an extremely small number relative to the population – which is how we evaluate this stuff.
The science shows that non-binary people are rare. It’s as simple as that.
I thought I was talking to thatoneguy when I said that. Not sure where you’re going with my statement because of that.
Aren’t you the little robot for the Master Race.
It’s not about the humans, it’s how much profit you can squeeze out of the Consumer Units that matters. Eh?
If one in a hundred jets that take off today fell out of the sky,
would you still try to explain to me how insignificant 1% is?
It was a variation on a theme. Call it jazz…taking a note and run with it.
I just discovered Dennis Mitchell and love his intellectual humor.
My sister-in-law had this very rare disease all her life
We told her she was different and dysfunctional and didn’t let her talk to children about it.
Of course we didn’t do that. 200 years ago she wouldn’t have lived past her 20s, but she had a long life, with kids, and made it to retirement. She got help with special chairs and a van and experimental drugs. Because that’s how “we evaluate this stuff” now.
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Who knows what oneguy really believes, he can be slippery with his words, but this one just kills me. Not just the post but I know a lot of people think this way.
What is the problem with shaping attitudes? We do that all the time by teaching kids to share and be nice. Not to mention the irony that this shows agreement that culture shapes attitudes. It says nothing about what is actually right, only that he wants how he was shaped to be the only way people are shaped.
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Well, this sentence sum up the position of LGBT haters. Under cover of protecting the children, they don’t want that tolerance be taught, as it would mean that their children would not share their prejudices.
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Rare, but not nonexistent. It’s that simple.
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Rare, but not nonexistent. It’s that simple.
And they are people, in case we forget
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Fair point but it’s very naive to think prejudice has to be taught. I was raised to be tolerant. It worked for a few years and then life experience taught me to be skeptical of tolerance.
Schools should not be attempting to shape attitudes, ever. No exceptions.
Good for her. Although, medical problems are very different from the lgbt experience.
Hey oneguy. Hozwzit goin
Guy, do you ever think about what you are saying?
Children grow, they watch, they learn, they need to be guided,
more and more parents are abandoning parenting duties, so it falls on teachers,
it’s like the natural order of things.
What you want? Children growing up without learning about the world around them or the people in it??
Just what do you think education in primary school is all about?
Have you ever thought about it?
Have you ever even worked with children?
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Have you ever even worked with children?
Nahh, I bet he has no children.
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You still learned it somewhere, even if it was in later years. Friends have a tendency to influence too, thus you probably learned it from them, if not from your parents.
Schools shouldn’t teach religion either, unless they are a church ran school. Religion generally shapes attitudes, but secular schools are there to teach, not preach. Therefore, secular schools can educate about sexuality, without shaping attitudes.
Exactly who should be shaping attitudes?
No one actually, but parents do and will.
That would be great, but who shapes the parents? What if they die? What if they have to have two jobs just to keep food on the table? It used to be churches that carried the morals. We need a secular replacement, one that doesn’t require supernatural beliefs