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[-] Sidhean@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This is a counter, specifically, to " because it is a social construct, therefore I won't do it."

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's more nuanced. It's 'this is a social construct, therefore I can just decide whether I want to accept it, and I dont'

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Except in this example, it's a kid using the argument to get out of "anything and everything". This isn't a necessarily a nuanced situation, this is using their own logic against them because they think they found a cheat code to not doing what they don't want to do.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah fair! I wasn't super clear, I was more talking about my comment than the original post.

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