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The Second Sexism | David Benatar

Brain in a Vat

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The Difference Between Advantage and Discrimination

I don't think that discrimination is something that just happens in brute nature, as it were. So one example of disadvantage would be the condition called hemo chromotosis. Women are going to be less liable this condition than males are. That's just a disadvantage. And similarly, there can be disadvantages for a woman. The disadvantages, in the absence of health care, of death during childbirth. Also, if you took a look at the issue of menstration, women are going to have a greater liability to anemia. Anemia thn ta, men are for precisely that reason. so you've got a biological difference here, and it leads to advantages and disadvantages for different sexes under

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