I've been here for 9 months and remained fairly unostentatious about my identity, however, I feel as though I have established myself as a user well enough that I can share some of my views in more depth.
Currently, I am 16 (not for long) and live in Australia (so yes, Faux or whatever you're calling yourself, you lost to a kid). Everyone's been saying that Australia has become a concentration camp and that we're degrading to the convicts we once were, but if you actually live here, it's not that bad. I just stay at home debating, watching Netflix and chilling whilst my classes play in the background. Though I don't have a strong opinion on the whole Coronavirus thing, I will say it is slightly amusing that everything the Australian government does is pretty much useless. They said that if you get double vaxxed we'll be out of this - we weren't. They said that if we had harsh lockdowns we could stamp the virus out - that didn't happen. They said if we followed all their instructions we could resume to normality - didn't happen. In fact, Covid was completely under control until the government messed up the hotel quarantine. Personally, I feel that if we had completely closed the border's when this began, the economic and health of Australians today would be far better off. But at the end of the day, I'm not the health minister.
The following are some of my beliefs:
- LGBTQ
- Homosexuality is not a choice and should be protected by law.
- Children with gender dysphoria should not be allowed to transition.
- There are two genders - I do not accept Two-Spirit or Boi.
- Undoubtedly this will be controversial so I refer you to Dr Debra Soh's The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society. She's a liberal sexologist who received her Ph.D in sexual neuroscience from York University. Her publication has received praise from Ben Shapiro, Richard Dawkins, Bret Weinstein and Steven Pinker.
- Religion
- Anti theism
- Tax churches.
- Separation of church and state.
- Creationism should be taught in history or like witchcraft.
- God doesn't exist.
- If you believe in a God with the omni attributes, it is my opinion that you are extremely naive.
- Morality
- I believe that metaphysical solipsism can be justified, so technically no morality?
- If we are to grant that our senses perceive an accurate representation of the world (which can be granted on an axiomatic ground) and that fields such as mathematics can be considered objective (i.e, objectivity exists) , Sam Harris' Moral Landscape view on morality (that it is objective) is convincing.
- General Politics
- Flat tax.
- Taxing X person a higher percentage Y person means you are taking a larger portion of money from X person. X person's money was acquired through work. Work requires time, therefore, if you do not have X's permission yet you take more of X's money, you are taking their work which is taking their time which is slavery.
- Free utility, healthcare and education honestly sound great but nothing is really free and I am yet to hear a sustainable or plausible plan, even in theory.
- In Australia, if you receive a doctor referral, you can have free x-rays, blood tests etc, which is pretty neat. I’m not too invested into Australian healthcare, so I am unsure whether this is supplied by taxpayer money, or medicare.
- Anyone who wants to abolish the police should live in South Chico or Detroit for a while.
- Pro-life
- I generally like to add theoretical before pro-life. My pro-lifeness is justified on the grounds that it is philosophically immoral, yet, everyday people are doing immoral things without thought or consequences. When is the last time you spent money that wasn't strictly necessary? Whether it is upgrading a phone or buying a couch, I invite you to weigh the importance of such purchases with the lives of starving children which could have been spared, were you to donate your money. Surely, everyone reading this has at least some money which they could use to save literal lives, yet no one does so.
- So in layman's terms, abortion is theoretically immoral but, in my personal opinion, I don't really care if people have it (there is of course a distinction to be made from abortion which are a result of rape and abortions which are resulted from intentionally non-caring and narcissistic individuals who turn up at the abortion clinic every couple months). Such is similar to veganism. The killing of sentient beings for the pleasure of your tastebuds is clearly wrong. I know this, yet I still love eating pork belly and will not stop. I suppose such is a character flaw, but it is one ingrained in the human kind.
- Systemic racism, defined as "a form of racism that is embedded in the laws and regulations of a society or an organisation" does not exist because there is no explicit law which targets minorities. However, this definition is quiet counter productive - (most) BLM adherents are not arguing that laws are racist they are arguing that there is large scale racism. To state that "a bottle is not foundationally (systemically) poisonous because it was not built with poison" is to dodge the entire point - I don't care where the poison comes from, the discussion should be whether the poison exists at all. Such is the same as systemic racism. There is (practically) no applicable difference between a country which lives with a law which discriminates against minorities, and a country which tacitly discriminates against a minority (China and the Uyghurs muslims).
- In short, I do not know whether there is large scale racism though I will say that I read a study stating that minorities have become less targeted because police are scared they will be labelled as racists, which is quite interesting.
- Philosophy
- The existence of the mind can be doubted.
- Free will does not exist.
- Fate does not exist.
- There is no soul.
- Miscellaneous
- Here is my political compass. I would say that my "rightness" comes from my "nonsupport" of abortion and tendency to favour a free market over socialism. Other than that, I would say that I'm neutral.
So there you go, these are some of my views. As this is an AMA, ask me anything!