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from the does-the-pensioner-want-to-repay-his-benefits-and-go-back-to-work,-too? dept.
In the quixotic battle against old age, some people use skin care and spin class.
That’s not enough for Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old who feels like he’s in his 40s. The Dutch pensioner is asking a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to change his birth certificate so that it says he took his first breath on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949. The judges heard his case Monday and promised they would render a verdict in the next several weeks.
Ratelband sees his request as no different from a petition to change his name or the gender he was assigned at birth — and isn’t bothered that this comparison might offend transgender people, whose medical needs have been recognized by the American Medical Association. It comes down to free will, he maintains.
I want to be recognized as an alien trapped in an Earthling's body.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:36AM
I'm not sure what point of mine you're trying to rebut.
1. I absolutely did *not* say "that inter-race means do not differ" Rather, what I said was that,
a. "race" is not a valid scientific concept;
b. geographically separated populations do differ. They just do so less (on the whole) than localized groups. In fact, you paraphrased my point when you said "intra-race variation exceeds inter-race."
2. I don't subscribe to unscientific definitions as they are too squishy for my taste. For example, the vernacular use of the term "theory" doesn't comport with the scientific use of that term. As such, while I do agree with the premise that geographically or culturally isolated (in the interbreeding sense) population groups are different (this is both empirically and intuitively obvious), there is only one "human race."
3. We appear to be in violent agreement. If you really want to argue semantics, please do it with someone else. I'm not interested in doing so.
All that said, you expressed our (as in collective human knowledge) understanding of how geographically separated populations can and do differ, including genetic, societal, cultural, economic and epigenetic factors quite nicely. Well done.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr