which would be totally impossible otherwise, right? when the government (or, given a few years, google/amazon’s private police force) wants to get down to brass tacks and throw folks in jail for saying the word “unionize,” no one is like “hmm i wish we’d done that pronouns thing”
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Yes. Your non-equivalence afaict relies on "accidentally", and it's entirely possible to do either of the other things accidentally: many men straight up are not taught appropriate boundaries for approaching women; how many people pick up the N-word casually from rap, etc.
Look, I feel that in any of these cases education and not state legislation is the answer. I thought this stemmed from a lifelong belief in reducing the power of the state but we've already established that I'm actually a transphobe so we can end this hell thread right here
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especially because these hypothetical cases are still going to be tried in front of (most likely) entirely cis juries
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does putting people who used to be at a disadvantage compared to you on equal footing increase the power of the state?
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well like... *arithmetically*, yes. but that's where you start getting into all the contortions of libertarianism. you can justify slavery in the South on states' rights, if you take that logic to its conclusion. state power is not actually a SUM of its power over individuals
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one of the defining forms of state power is the declaration of states of exception. the state does not become less powerful when it chooses to *let people get away with things*.
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