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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Some additional social constructs they may be more sentimental about: gifts, allowance, summer vacation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, doors, privacy, the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A sandwich is a social construct. But a social construct isn't always a sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"Very good. That's exactly right. That also includes early bedtimes, no electronics, and double servings of vegetables. All social constructs that I can establish any time you want."

😊 🫴🏀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Borders are a social construct. Yet there are people killing each other about it.

Your company is a social construct. Yet it provides you with work and money.

Money is a social construct. Yet your kids still want their allowances.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"Sure, but your feet would still get cold."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Guess we're all social constructs (tf that mean)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Social constructs are real.things, so here you go

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Health care is a social construct too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I get that it's a joke, but wearing socks is not a social construct-- it's a social convention, but it's utility is driven primarily by non-social factors. A social construct is an idea created and maintained by society specifically for its social function, which neither socks nor the act or wearing them nor the idea that wearing socks is good, are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Vegetables are a social construct too.

Afaik, botanically, there is no such thing as a "vegetable". Only fruits. What we perceive as "vegetable" differs between cultures worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait till you find out that some places around the world think fish meat does not count as meat and is vegetarian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I had a friend from Grenada that told me this one day and I had trouble understanding the reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fish is not meat, but it's also not vegetarian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The American Meat Science Association defines meat as red meat (beef, pork, and lamb), poultry, fish/seafood, and meat from other managed species (AMSA, 2017).

Fish, by definition, is meat.

Other simpler definitions around the world sinply say "flesh of an animal". At that point, you're arguing that fish isn't an animal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

those people are morons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The botanical definition is just "edible parts of a plant". The culinary definition however does differs per culture.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

everyone replying that socks have a practical use, as if social constructs arent practical???

my issue is that even though "clothing" is a social construct, the stuff that socks are made out of is not. calling that stuff a sock is a social construct, but choosing to put the fabric on your body is not. becoming "clothed" is a social construct, but the unspecified uncategorized state of having that fabric on your body is just a physical state, not a construct. the meaning we apply to it is the thing that wouldn't exist without socially constructed systems of meaning.

It's kinda sad, i guess. I'm usually the first one to champion XYZ is a social construct, and have to deal with morons not understanding it, but here? no one is willing to say it?

Socks are not a social construct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Social constructs are Social constructs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Social constructs aren't practical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Your feet are nasty. I don't need to see them.

Also. The world is nasty. Go raw dog the world and see how long you make it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your feet are nasty. I don't need to see them.

Then don't look.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My dicks out. It needs to breath.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'd be cool with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You should see a doctor about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't hands much more nasty?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Only if you don't wash them and don't clip your nails, or if you paint your nails that's also nasty

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not that I advocate violence, but not beating your kids, selling them on the street, or making them work in a factory is also a social contract.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Contract yes, as it pertains to laws, but I would argue construct no- since protecting one's offspring is a natural/biological impulse. It's non negotiable from a survival viewpoint, and some people have better survival instincts than others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

We as creatures behave certain ways because of a result of biology and circumstances. How can you say anything we do isn't a natural/biological impulse. When did we stop being a part of nature? And stop being controlled by biology?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You cannot invoke biology to generalize here. There are many mammals who use their offsprings as projectile decoys when they are in danger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Let's not bring Elon into this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Typically those are mammals with larger litters and shorter gestational periods. Human offspring are too resource intensive to be widely used as decoys.

This is a weird conversation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are homo sapiens one such mammal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as one person in history has done it once, yes. Just because people around us doesn' do it, doesn't mean it's not "natural". I don't know how tribes with 11 disposable children behave.

We used to be night active but if you ask anyone nowadays they'd act like waking up to the sun is THE "natural" thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you suggesting that if even one human lacks this biological impulse to protect their children, we can't say that humans generally have a biological impulse to protect their children? That's absurd. And isn't this point entirely moot with regards to people who do have that in-built instinct?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm saying it is not "non negotiable".

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