(December 20, 2022 at 8:43 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Weeds aren't social constructs. They're any wild plant growing in a cultivated space. Pets, also, not social constructs. We don't have to agree that dogs or cats or snakes or snails exist. They exist without our agreement, just like a weed.
Things like race, gender, nationality. These are social constructs.
What is a pet is subjective in the sense an animal can be a pet, food, or pest depending on what the people around it consider it to be.
A snails exist like humans exist but in terms of evolution there's no clear marker of when human became human and not the great ape humans previously evolved from.
There's not a perfect record of every single minute evolutionary change, we call ourselves human homosapiens because it works as a general description and we don't have to describe every hominid that ever existed.
If we did have a perfect record of every evolutionary change it would still be socially agreed upon labels placed on chosen points within the entire period of evolution.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
