• T156@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Just because something is a social construct doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing to be ignored.

    Being alive is a social construct. Humans decided that some things counted as alive, and other things did not. Nature doesn’t care if a bunch of chemical reactions are happening inside a cell, or in a glass tube. It has no objective definition of “alive”.

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      2 days ago

      Why is everyone is this comment section saying the same thing? Did I miss the part where they argue it’s a bad thing?

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        2 days ago

        They said the child was using to “get out of anything and everything”, including wearing socks, which implicitly argues it to be a bad thing.

        The child is more or less saying that because something is a social construct, that means that they do not have to follow it.

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          1 day ago

          I could see that, thanks.
          I still don’t understand why there’s like a hundred comments saying the same thing slightly differently, looks a bit fake. I don’t have the time to go through all of those, but it reminds me of account sellers trying to get some legitimate-looking history. Shame if that’s the case

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Did I miss the part where they argue it’s a bad thing?

        The context is a kid using it to get out of doing shit, so I’d say it’s a bad thing based on the reason for using the argument.