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New Gender Options for Facebook Users
Cake Faice:
--- Quote from: Sabb on February 17, 2014, 09:49:39 AM ---Consider what you just said as it's incredibly easy to apply to probably all of your posts on this thread.
Actually that's becoming debatable, regardless to what you or I may have been taught.
Ofxord dictionary's definition of gender:
Merriam-Webster dictionary's definition of gender:
Both are reliable dictionaries but Oxford's expands a little bit past the two options. It's possible that the definition could change and that gender could be defined by the person rather than their genitalia.
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The definition was put there for a reason in the first place. The only way it would change is if everyone goes "everything is social construct" and start rallying to change the official definitions of gender. If it's not broken, then why does it need to be fixed?
Sabb:
--- Quote from: Cake Faice on February 17, 2014, 09:57:38 AM ---The definition was put there for a reason in the first place. The only way it would change is if everyone goes "everything is social construct" and start rallying to change the official definitions of gender. If it's not broken, then why does it need to be fixed?
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Language and the way words are used is by no means definite and changes as a majority begin to use the word differently.
ursus:
--- Quote from: Cake Faice on February 17, 2014, 09:57:38 AM ---The definition was put there for a reason in the first place. The only way it would change is if everyone goes "everything is social construct" and start rallying to change the official definitions of gender. If it's not broken, then why does it need to be fixed?
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Why should anything ever change? The world worked just fine when everyone rode horses and walked everywhere. The only instant communication we need can be accomplished by telegraph. How minimalist and traditional is your ideal society?
Cake Faice:
--- Quote from: ursus on February 17, 2014, 10:08:01 AM ---Why should anything ever change? The world worked just fine when everyone rode horses and walked everywhere. The only instant communication we need can be accomplished by telegraph. How minimalist and traditional is your ideal society?
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That's the thing though, not all change is good. In our current society, we have very few traditions left because left-wing extremists go "too offensive ban plz". The tradition of marriage is already a joke now, how is burning out all old traditions ever a good thing in your ideal society?
ursus:
--- Quote from: Cake Faice on February 17, 2014, 10:12:12 AM ---That's the thing though, not all change is good. In our current society, we have very few traditions left because left-wing extremists go "too offensive ban plz". The tradition of marriage is already a joke now, how is burning out all old traditions ever a good thing in your ideal society?
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How is it not? "Tradition" is just something that's used to justify a custom without having to back it up logically. Do you think that it's a bad thing that we've abandoned the tradition of legally being allowed to duel someone to the death with pistols? Slavery was a tradition for thousands of years until we realized that it was harmful and unethical. Traditional Christian marriage was over when divorce was legal anyway, why should it matter what someone else does in their own lives now?
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