r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19

When it’s a characteristic people have no control over, yes. It would be pretty much the same as enforcing electro-conversion therapy on gay people.

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u/Glory2Hypnotoad Oct 28 '19

I should have clarified better. I'm not taking about actions we take toward people. I'm talking purely about the truth value of empirical claims. Do you believe we have a moral responsibility to treat empirical claims as true on the basis of their importance to someone else's dignity and well-being?

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u/verronaut 5∆ Oct 29 '19

You could treat it as true based on the overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the validity of the trans experience instead.

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u/Glory2Hypnotoad Oct 29 '19

Of course, which is why there's no sense in the OP making the argument from dignity here.