Like, it's not uncommon to meet twins where one of them is taller than the other, or heavier, or has different hair or skin, especially as they get older (and are no longer living in the same house with the same environment)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
And, like, both twins "really" look like that, they're both the way they "really" should be, there's not some Ideal Human "encoded into their genes" that's the way they "should" look under "ideal conditions" That's not a real concept, that's Nazi shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
I find it interesting to note who is talking about 'ideal' humans and what appearance people 'should' have. The relevant term is 'would' have... Moreover, I don't recall saying TW 'shouldn't' transition, merely that underlying biology remains unchanged.
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Replying to @unwitod @sophienotemily and
"Would" have when? There are millions of different things you can make using one set of DNA, many of them not meaningfully human (look at the HeLa cells and other tumorous growths)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
You have been spaffing on about this for a while now, but you seem to be arguing against something you imagine has been said to you. It's quite odd.
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Replying to @unwitod @arthur_affect and
The twin studies you are citing precisely require the distinction you seem to think should never be made (because "Nazi shit"): what is caused by underlying genetics vs what in the environment effects gene expression. That is why they are interesting
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Replying to @unwitod @arthur_affect and
Chu doesn’t see the difference between twin studies to determine the genetic and environmental influences on traits, and Nazis stitching twins together for shits and giggles. For him even your genes are just an ‘environment’.
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
I'm on record as saying I think if I had different genes I'd still exist and be me, at least to the same degree that I'd still exist and be me under the counterfactual where I was born in a different city or a different year
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Was it sensible to go ‘on the record’ with that? In what sense would something with different genes and different environmental experiences be you? If this was possible why is there only one of you?
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
There is, in real life, only one of me Counterfactuals are stupid and not real But I'm saying genes aren't privileged within them
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What I mean is that it's no more AND NO LESS to talk about counterfactuals like "If I had colorblindness" or "If I had XX chromosomes" than ones like "If I were born five years earlier" or "If I'd gone to Harvard" or "If I'd lost a finger in an accident"
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