# Religion, Transphobia and Category Errors

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878 "2025-02-04T17:08:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878/244 "2025-05-07T15:26:22Z")

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> [@Babale](#):
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> In before “well it would be viable if the evils of capitalism didn’t sabotage it!”)

So you know the answer, why ask the question?

> [@Babale](#):
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> single most productive economic system

Productive, I’ll happily give you. Capitalism sure is good at sucking _all_ the nutrients out of its hosts. But … _looks at the burning world_… mere “productivity” is not the unalloyed good you seem to think it is.

> [@Gyrate](#):
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> whether he means he’s against a specific type of capitalism or against all of them?

I’m against all of them.

> [@Babale](#):
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> You’ll note that Dibble didn’t respond to me asking for examples with “Well, there aren’t any countries that operate by the principles I suggest, but here are some worker coops that do some great stuff” or anything like that.

I can happily do that, if you’d like. Or I can just link to a previous thread where [I’ve done that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-a-time-without-capitalism-and-what-would-it-look-like/992862/77), instead.

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