RE: Social construct.
December 21, 2022 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2022 at 8:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's actually no official line and thus no agreement (in the us at least) about any difference between a mountain and a hill. We used to say that a mountain had to be over 1k feet, but that was unworkable for any number of reasons. So it was dropped. No mountains or hills disappeared or appeared when we did so.
Similarly, we could outlaw dogs tomorrow, and they would not cease to exist on the basis that they are no longer, and cannot be, our pets. That they are now unacceptable. Nor would the effects of their breeding. Amusingly, I had a convo with a guy who couldn't keep chickens where he was - the stated reasons being wildly asserted hazards to human health. I asked him to look up whether he could keep a fucking chimpanzee. He could. Pretty sure purdue had a hand in that one. Good laughs all around. Legal systems - a social construct. You're not going to stumble on a "chickens no, chimpanzees yes" law laying around out in the environment the next time you try to take out the trash, and even the justifications for such laws are very often divorced from any objective reality.
Similarly, we could outlaw dogs tomorrow, and they would not cease to exist on the basis that they are no longer, and cannot be, our pets. That they are now unacceptable. Nor would the effects of their breeding. Amusingly, I had a convo with a guy who couldn't keep chickens where he was - the stated reasons being wildly asserted hazards to human health. I asked him to look up whether he could keep a fucking chimpanzee. He could. Pretty sure purdue had a hand in that one. Good laughs all around. Legal systems - a social construct. You're not going to stumble on a "chickens no, chimpanzees yes" law laying around out in the environment the next time you try to take out the trash, and even the justifications for such laws are very often divorced from any objective reality.
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