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If your defense of the thesis "trans people deserve human rights" literally cites "well, actually, sometimes, 2 plus 2 really *is* 5" as support, you are not helping. You are acting a fool, and making us (not *just* you) look like narcissistic jackasses.
This is literally the climax of the most overwhelmingly bleak work of dystopian fiction I'm aware of - 1984. The depravity and power of Big Brother is demonstrated and enhanced by forcing Winston to say and believe that 2+2 is 5. Can you even hear yourselves?
This is pretty much along the lines of "Sauron was right, he really *should* have one ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them, otherwise Trump wins!" level of enthusiastic embrace of literary evil in support of a reasonable cause. Just please, stop.
If you're going to cite fictional evil characters as inspiration, at least try to have some humor about it:
"Bender was right, kill all humans! Otherwise they'll keep yelling stupid things at each other on twitter!"
"Bender was right, kill all humans! Otherwise they'll keep yelling stupid things at each other on twitter!"
And on top of that, I honestly can't tell if I'm more annoyed at this by virtue of being a (I hope) reasonable transsexual, or by virtue of being someone who deeply loves mathematics. Trans rights are obviously important to me. But *everyone* needs math and science.
And on that, the reason 2+2=4 is because the integers are foundational to all of mathematics. Carefully-constructed cases where "2" doesn't mean 2 and "4" doesn't mean 4 can be mooted, but that just means the question you're answering is not "2+2=?", but something different.
For instance, in modular arithmetic, "2" is used as shorthand for "the equivalence class to which the integer 2 belongs", not "the integer 2". As long as you're clear it's shorthand, it's fine, but these are two different concepts. Deliberately muddying them is not mathematics.
And the coding thing is worse. Having the number 2.48 in a variable & printing it as 2 doesn't make the variable equal to 2. You're starting from 2.48 in both cases, along parallel streams. Adding to something else in one case, rounding it off, printing it out in the other.
You aren't engaging seriously with either mathematics or trans rights by doing this, you're blowing pomo smoke in the air to make yourself look clever to people who aren't actually very clever. It's as nonsensical as an average Trump tweet.
