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OnLy tWo eLemEnTs (gregtech.eu)
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Would you care to explain yourself? Maybe explain how folks that would never produce either gamete fit into your binary based on gamete production? Or is that too advanced? I hear we are sticking to basic biology after all.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    organized around producing one or the other of two gamete sizes

    This implies that the organization can fail then? That is how we put the outliers in the binary? That means that that kind of organization has a goal?

    That feels like common sense. Like in the culturally-rooted sense. Not necessarily a reflection of reality, but an easy idea to swallow. I don't think human development has intention in that kind of way unless you are religious.

    I guess, what makes gamete production the goal of human development? What makes you confident that there is a goal to human development?

    To me it seems like it would be hard to answer those questions without anthropomorphizing human development.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    So, just how you can't say that a rock on an even platform has failed to fall, I don't think you can say that an intersex individual has failed to produce gametes. Since neither had intention. Therefore I feel like your binary definition is extraphysical. Given that, I think you'd understand why I wouldn't accept such a religious adjacent idea.

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