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Scholar Makes "Moral Case" For Letting People Decide Their Own Age
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-2...ir-own-age
Quote:A recent article published in The Journal of Medical Ethics by a Finnish bio-ethicist made a moral case for the legal change of a person’s age to correspond with that person’s “experienced age.”
The piece, by Joona Räsänen of the University of Oslo in Norway, titled “A Moral Case for Legal Age Change,” concludes that there are three scenarios when a change to one’s legal age should be allowed:
When “the person genuinely feels his age differs significantly from his chronological age,” when “the person’s biological age is recognized to be significantly different from his chronological age,” and when “age change would likely prevent, stop or reduce ageism, discrimination due to age, he would otherwise face.”
Räsänen differentiates between “chronological” age, or how long the person has actually lived; “biological age,” or the state of one’s body; and “emotional” age, the age as which one identifies.
“Legal age is a cause of severe discrimination for some people whose biological and emotional age do not match their chronological age,” he argues.
“Age is (for some people at least) an important part of their identity. People can identify themselves as older or younger than they actually (chronologically) are…I do not deny people’s own experiences.”
When asked by The Fix how biological age might be distinguished from chronological age, Räsänen was unable to clarify. “I am not a biologist or medical doctor so I cannot give a definite answer here. I believe this is something biologists and medical doctors should consider and decide together with philosophers and bioethicists.”
“Psychologists and psychiatrists should be consulted when a person wants to change her age, such as they are consulted when a person wants to change her sex. How exactly this should be done? I am not sure … but for now, I would say that similar psychological tests should be done when (someone) wants to change her sex,” he said.
Article: https://philarchive.org/archive/RSNAMC
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2019 08:06 PM by q5sys.)
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RE: Scholar Makes "Moral Case" For Letting People Decide Their Own Age
My dream of being an 18 year old black woman gets closer every day.
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RE: Scholar Makes "Moral Case" For Letting People Decide Their Own Age
Here's the real Russia collusion, introduce stupidity as the norm, Rather than them sending us their best and brightest ala The Amerikans, they are sending us mentally challenged college educated idiots.
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RE: Scholar Makes "Moral Case" For Letting People Decide Their Own Age
I don't see anything wrong w/ this. Age is just a number. The liberals have told us, that we should be free to marry anyone or anything we'd like, we can identify as a woman and use the ladies restroom even if we have big Jim & the twins swinging down below, whites identifying as blacks. Why not this?? I am hereby identifying as a 65 yr old man and want my retirement money NOW!!
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2019 07:55 AM by MemTigers1998.)
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