Prydania wrote:What if the person in question doesn’t want to have their sexual orientation changed? Is it morally ok to attempt to change it anyway?
The QB of the Seattle Seahawks, Russel Wilson, nearly got in trouble with the law because he claimed that a mineral water he sponsored could cure the effects of a concussion.
Dr. Oz was dragged before the US Senate because they had some questions about his tendency to sell supliments as “miracle drugs.”
I’m pretty sure I would be facing legal issues if I opened a kiosk at the mall and started selling tonic I claimed could cure cancer.
I suppose what I’m saying is that quackery exists in a legal grey area anyway. And I wouldn’t be opposed to banning it across the board.
See, despite your assertions I don’t fear science. I fear the potential for people to abuse science, and I’m opposed to quackery
And if, after years of study and money spent, it turns out it’s just not doable? Not every scientific hypothesis pans out.
The discovery of sharp sticks hasn’t been without incident
Of course we as a species are quite a bit more intelligent and enlightened today compared to when our ancestors first discovered those pointy sticks.
I don’t think I’m out of bounds to suggest that science has a duty to discuss the moral implications of its ventures these days. I’m not saying “ban science!”
I’m just saying it ought to be aware that scientific discovery doesn’t exist in a vacuum, divorced from
implications in the real world.
No, in general not morally okay to do stuff to people they'd rather you didn't.
It's not much of a gray we we have generally defined what people can and cannot say. If you don't like quakery you don't like quakery.
When the hypothesis is as vastly broad as "this thing is, in some way, possible" it would have to take quite a bit of failure and it's not a possibility that should be entertained without better understanding the actual mechanisms involved.
The purpose of the was that point sticks are about as nice as the person wielding them. I have the same issues with governments changing people's sexuality against their will as I do governments stabbing people with sharp sticks, we have discovered that dick governments suck not that we should avoid discovering things.
Thermodolia wrote:Tbh a lot of pride parades have just become another reason to party and are pretty heavily commercialized. Which a few LGBT people hate, they are also the same ones who want to kick straight people from gay bars and shit like that
The stonewall riots which most pride parades commemorate were literally people fighting for their right to party- the right to get shit-faced, meet people, and fuck without interference and throwing bottles at cops for not respecting that right.
