This is where talking about social constructs is more useful than talking about "discovering truths."
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Their creation, deployment, and use are all dictated by social practices. And indeed, the weapons themselves may dictate some practices—
for example, they tend to require secrecy in the organizations that create them.
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Does that make the weapons not real? Of course not. They're real. Society making something doesn't make it non-real.
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Money is a social construct — but you still have to pay the bills.
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Race is a social construct — a fact that won't help you if you're an African-American in a dodgy traffic stop.
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Just because things are social constructs doesn't mean they can't have power or be real in the world. Social construction ≠ solipsism.
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