Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You misunderstand, I wasn’t objecting to you having made the claim, nor the claim itself. I have zero interest in debating online, particularly when the person has been a dick in the rest of the thread.

  But I do enjoy pointing out things that people might not be aware are expected so that they can be less of a dick and start engaging in good faith.

  That being said, you can’t use the NHS to support NHS decisions. Also, that isn’t a link to a study or experiment at all. So it isn’t a valid source for online debate (and you’d get laughed offstage for trying that at an actual debate. Same with any given secondary source. That’s just making an appeal to authority, which can only be useful if and when the authority is being recognized as an authority for the purpose of the specific debate. Since the NHS’ decision is what’s being questioned, you just linking to their opinion isn’t useful. And I can’t read Swedish, so I can’t say anything about the other link, but I suspect it’s the same thing.

  There’s methodology to a proper online debate. You aren’t following it, so you’re gong to keep running into people dismissing you, regardless of any validity or lack thereof in your attempts.

  What you need to do to debate in good faith is to provide either links or correct citations for what you’re using to make your opinion a claim that others should listen to.

  Basically, to sum up, a post that brought about objections to the decision was made. You said “but the NHS is an authority to listen to”. Others then said, “bullshit, they’re using bad science”. You then rebutted with, “nuh-uh this is their opinion, look at it again.”

  That’s fine if your entire goal is to just keep saying that you trust the NHS and stand behind their opinion. That’s perfectly fine, we all gotta make choices like that sometimes. But you can’t pretend that doing so is a good faith effort at debate and discussion. You can actually state that directly, though, and then anyone wishing to argue with you can be told to piss off without any need for anything else. But it isn’t how you change minds.

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  • Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy fuck, lots of word for ‘zero interest’, especially seeing as you have damn no sources for your claims, lmao

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