> On Apr 10, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Solipsism is subjective idealism. The notion that an individual can determine their own gender is substituting subjective determination for objective determination.
>
> Social rules are just as much an objective reality for individuals (subjects ) as the physical world is . To claim that one can as an individual change the customs and culture , objective reality, is solipsism ; with respect to SOCIAL objective reality. An individual cannot change the rules of a culture any more than they can change the laws of thermodynamics . Society is an objective reality for individuals; that's materialism.
>
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk