I think you're trying to explain to me what zero means while I'm trying to explain that it's not where numbers numbers start of from. It's where array offsets start (but making humans make that distinction instead of compilers is on obvious own goal for language designers who weren't intending to make off by one errors more frequent). It's where set theory starts, but it's absolutely not where counting starts, and number starts with counting. It's not a natural number.
Only if you're French or a computer scientist or something! No one else counts from zero.
There's nothing natural about zero. The famously organized and inventive Roman Empire did fine without it and it wasn't a popular concept in Europe until the early thirteenth century.
If zero were natural like 1, 2, 3, 4, then all cultures would have counted from zero, but they absolutely did not.
What is this woke mind virus? Up to yesterday I thought I was a man, then boom, I read something on social media and now I'm worried that I might identify as having no plans to purchase a new vehicle! My wife is still sleeping but I don't know how she's going to react if I share these feelings with her.
Hey, I just realised that there's already a word for mind virus, and it is MEME!
I'd better confiscate my kid's phones immediately. Man, they're going to be pissed. I mean, person who has no plans to purchase a vehicle, they're going to be pissed. Wait, THEY have no plans to purchase a vehicle! Neither does my wife! My whole family! I'd better vote for the most insane right winger who promises to ban the Internet!
On the other hand, it was Douglas Reynholm's only successful relationship ever, she was the only woman he ever really loved or respected, and he only ruined it all by unearthing his stupid baseless prejudice. We can conclude that if you just drop your prejudice you might actually be happy at last.
This is really clarifying, thanks. It makes so much more sense now. The irrational assertion that is a choice is real for them. They don't understand that other people aren't bi. They think homosexual people have chosen the minority route out of some sort of stubbornness and that of they just up the social legal penalties it'll reduce the number of people publicly living the life that they secretly crave to explore but can't bear to admit to.
Oh, you're a conservative! No wonder you didn't pay attention to anything I said, ignored all the main points I made and showed all the empathy of a two year old.
Yet this is what you object to, what you want to debate, what you want to discuss philosophically:
even if you don’t necessarily hate them, it’s transphobic to believe that a trans person’s identity is worth less or is less valid that a cis person’s, even if you don’t feel any malice for trans people.
Your "respectful philosophical discussion" about whether trans identities are valid or worth as much as other people's is deeply and profoundly disrespectful and hurtful.
Why can't you just accept that some people are different to you, and you can just let them be without telling them that they're wrong about who they are?
I think you're trying to explain to me what zero means while I'm trying to explain that it's not where numbers numbers start of from. It's where array offsets start (but making humans make that distinction instead of compilers is on obvious own goal for language designers who weren't intending to make off by one errors more frequent). It's where set theory starts, but it's absolutely not where counting starts, and number starts with counting. It's not a natural number.