Please mentally reimagine this comment for some other ‘chosen’-stigma subgroup—being gay, trans or whatever.
You’re not wrong that in some abstract sense there’s a fact of the matter about having more people be that way makes the world better or worse, but that doesn’t mean it’s +EV to do armchair speculation about. And raising such speculation in response to someone saying they feel targeted by prejudice seems like particularly unempathic timing.
Please mentally reimagine this comment for some other ‘chosen’-stigma subgroup—being gay, trans or whatever.
You’re not wrong that in some abstract sense there’s a fact of the matter about having more people be that way makes the world better or worse, but that doesn’t mean it’s +EV to do armchair speculation about. And raising such speculation in response to someone saying they feel targeted by prejudice seems like particularly unempathic timing.