Comments by "Myles Platt" (@melsop54) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

I'd say there's a level of acceptable unfairness where any athlete in that league can reasonably beat another with enough practice and desire. However, when we are at a place where the best possible biological female in history is still miles behind a billological male who joined her sport and obliterated her record so bad that no biological woman can possibly reach it again...that's a whole different level of unfair. Might as well have grown men play on t-ball teams...
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@woolfie8766 Not at all. Purely hypothetical. No incorrect answer. If we brought men's and women's sports together, and biological men gravitated to the top of every sport (I say this for reasons such as the under 15 year old boys soccer team recently beating the US Women's Soccer team), what would happen then? Are we just going to accept that and tell biological women to deal with it?
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@rayzamarripajr.7571 💯 Reality of that though is that biological men will have that advantage over biological women 99.999% of the time. If sports combine, we as a society will have to accept watching women be dominated at all times in all sports.
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@woolfie8766 "Myles Platt i don't even know what your point is. I'm saying we should focus on performance and create divisions irregardless of gender at the highest levels of many sports. If a woman plays well enough at baseball to compete at the highest level, no reason she shouldn't be able to." Ok. So lets say we do this. Biological men and biological women compete together in all sports. My question is what will be the reaction if biological men gravitate to the top of every one of these sports, leaving biological women forced to all compete for say 3rd place at very best just by nature of their biological makeup? Is this the true measure of equality? I submit this idea because we know a group of 15 and under year old boys recently beat the US Women's Adult soccer team. There's no reason to think this pattern wouldn't carry across most every other sport, leaving biological women way behind most possibilities of even medaling simply by nature of being a woman. Will we accept this outcome as a society should it happen?
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@woolfie8766 The question is WHY they are super male dominated then. Why is that? Perhaps it's the built in drive that males have for contest, for a fight, for a physical challenge. Women do have that, but it is virtually an exception to the rule for females where as it's virtually the rule for males. As an evolutionary trait, males have a drive to hunt, kill, provide, etc...Since we are in a civilized society that no longer allows for human/human killing, males have that drive has been channeled in to other things...namely high contact competition (football, MMA, etc) These things are always male dominated because the drive to do these things is inherently a male thing. No amount of social engineering to include women in that will change it.
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@plasticflower Precisely my point. I appreciate your input. The guaranteed outcome of bringing biological men and biological women together in sport will be biological men surpassing virtually all biological women. It will be biological women being forced to compete for 4th or 5th place at best...and few people want to train like a 1st or 2nd place athlete knowing they can't possibly do better than 4th or 5th place no matter how hard they try.
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What is scary is the tenacious commitment to something that is demonstrably false.
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@woolfie8766 And what would happen if biological men happened to gravitate to the top of all those sports, holding all the records, and making the most money by bringing in the most viewers?
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Furthermore, it is rooted ENTIRELY in a distrust of absolutely EVERYTHING and EVERYONE around you. After all, if EVERYTHING in this world is "not what we have been told" and that is because of countless millions of people through history somehow carrying on a scam called Globe, then who in this world can you possibly trust other than yourself? How can one be sure that even your spouse or parents aren't in on it right? It drives one in to utter madness. Technically, it causes a deep form of paranoia.
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When a dude In 72nd place on a men's swim team decides to transition and immediately becomes number 1 in the women's league AND places the record well out of any physical reach of biological women...it's not fair and we shouldn't pretend it is.
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@ms.greywolf8228 The rules are not a moral arbiter here. If the rules said no black folks allowed, would you be leaning on "The rules say it's OK, so it's ok!" I would hope not. No amount of hormone "therapy" erases the natural advantage of being a male competing against women. It just doesn't.
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So basically, as a FE'er, if you have to think too much about a piece of evidence, then you should dismiss it as false. If you don't have the money to do an experiment yourself, you can safely assume anyone else doing the same experiment is lying if they get a result that disagrees with your presumption. Seems like pretty sound scientific logic.
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I just wanna know how this light emitting ball of energy called the sun somehow knows not to emit light past the center line of the earth at any given time. Further more, how it can emit light a short distance to the center of that dividing line on the plane...and an entirely much longer distance to reach the outer edges of the plane at the center divide...at the same time, so some light travels one distance, and other light knows it must travel a bit further before stoping.
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@trailbossdan1 As it pertains to a disk shaped earth, yes. As it pertains to reality, not at all.
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@warmachineuk Gotcha. It's just odd (of course), cause we know exactly half the world is day and half the world is night at all times. That, among many other things, has been observed countless times. So they still lose me on how the magic desklamp sun manages to emit smart light that knows to only travel so far before stopping so as to not keep most of not all the disk in perpetual daytime.
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Asking for evidence is 100% acceptable and what we should expect. It is rational. It is NOT rational then be given all available evidence and summarily reject it all because YOU didn't discover this evidence. If you tell me the color blue doesn't exist because you've never seen evidence and would like to see some...and then you reject all evidence that I provide to show blue exists as a color...you are involved in a self fulfilling prophesy. You both root your view on the foundation of having no proof otherwise...AND reject all proof otherwise. The only possible outcome is that your own point of view is confirmed no matter what. You can equate it to the idea that is popular on the political left that white people are inherently racist. For a white person to actually act racist is proof of this...but also any attempt for white people to actively disprove they are racist is further proof they are racist. This is cult think, and it is designed on purpose to hold one captive to an irrational idea.
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I hear you, but what happens when winning (as far as breaking a record) is no longer even an option for you anymore because a biological male put the record well out of any physical reach? Is it really fair if a biological male joins a women's sport and immediately doubles or even triples the best possible outcome any biological female has ever had? Is it fair to simply tell the biological females "Tough luck. Try for second best cause that's all you can possibly get now."?
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