Really? Rights are always based on social constructs, ultimately. Just look at the abortion debate. Not everyone agrees on what pregnant is because the bio and social are inseparable in the context of rights.
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Replying to @palmd @MarkHoofnagle and
Is your age socially constructed? Your sex is not. Although the fashionable idea is to deny this. Your sexuality is not. But if you you deny sex is material and objective then sexuality must be denied too. In what possible sense is this progressive?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @palmd and
Yes age is socially constructed. We decided it starts at birth, because the definition predates understanding of reproduction. In the end we are all billions of years old - a continuous thread of life. And we chose a point along each split - arbitrarily - to age the individual.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @palmd and
How does your conception of age help us protect children from various forms of exploitation? "The person's age was a construct your honour. Perhaps they were billions of years old. That is why I tried to have sex with them". The mind boggles.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @MarkHoofnagle and
Funny how you leapt from a discussion of the arbitrariness of how we define people's age to pedophilia. Disturbing.
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Replying to @frozenwarning @lecanardnoir and
That's nice. You're entitled to your opinion, even when it is wrong.
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You have a genderless 'nym. I had no idea whether you were a man or a woman and never have; at least, I don't remember your ever having mentioned it.
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