Regardless of whether it’s an illusion - if it is an illusion, it’s a compelling one, to the point that you can’t be perfectly confident in it being illusory.
You should, logically, at least try to carry out change by your own hands, because the alternative is to potentially squander whatever autonomy you may have.
It’d be like standing at an unlocked door, but being so convinced it’s locked, that you don’t even give a good try at turning the knob.
How we perceive choice does affect behavior but it’s one of a myriad of things and how you perceive choice isn’t a choice either. Change occurs without requiring choice, even change by ones own hands. Nothing is squandered if it never existed. We will still behave and our behavior will cause changes, but it isn’t a choice how we behave. So any sexism, in the system of behavior we are all a part of, is a product, not a choice.
Yeah.
Do you think systemic sexism is inherent and perpetuated without human compliance?
I think choice is largely an illusion.
The illusion of freewill doesn’t absolve you of your self aware moral obligations.
Something that is also not a choice.
Impotence is an illusion that helps keep us in our lanes.
That presupposes we have the power to leave the lanes we are in, which, I don’t think we do.
Maybe you don’t, but women are doing science now and they weren’t allowed to a century ago.
Women doing science now is the lane.
I guess a comet kicked us into this lane
Change does not require choice, cause and effect simply continues.
Not with that mindset.
Not with any mindset.
Regardless of whether it’s an illusion - if it is an illusion, it’s a compelling one, to the point that you can’t be perfectly confident in it being illusory.
You should, logically, at least try to carry out change by your own hands, because the alternative is to potentially squander whatever autonomy you may have.
It’d be like standing at an unlocked door, but being so convinced it’s locked, that you don’t even give a good try at turning the knob.
How we perceive choice does affect behavior but it’s one of a myriad of things and how you perceive choice isn’t a choice either. Change occurs without requiring choice, even change by ones own hands. Nothing is squandered if it never existed. We will still behave and our behavior will cause changes, but it isn’t a choice how we behave. So any sexism, in the system of behavior we are all a part of, is a product, not a choice.