the-pi-guy said:
I'm very sorry, but I find this to be a poor argument. What in the world even works this way, where you can just outright write something off, because it's rare? Shark Attacks are far rarer, but no one would ever say "Sharks don't exist", "Sharks never attack people". In a lot of situations, the exceptions are the interesting things. There are lots of people studying gravity, because the current theory of Gravity only works 99% of the time, and that missing 1% is interesting.  Politically, we should have systems that don't blatantly discriminate against people at all. If someone tried passing a law that said "punch everyone named Miriam", pointing out that Miriam is a rare name, and only 0.034% of people are named that, isn't a defense. If there's some kind of good reason to not work to have better definitions in science or not work to be more inclusive in politics, then I can understand that. Like sometimes it's not even really possible to have a good definition for something. If you want to define the smallest river or whether something is a mountain or a hill or something. When you look into some of these things, they are often actually very undefined or much more weirdly defined than you might actually think.  And sometimes even well intentioned policy ideas end up hurting more people than they help. I can completely understand goofy situations like that. But I would argue that it's not the case here. For an example here, transphobia even hurts cisgender people. Because there are a lot of women who happen to have more masculine attributed features like a strong jawline, and there are instances they get harassed because someone assumed that they were trans, even though they aren't. |
Its about the rule, not the exeption.
Like the Nintendo Switch(since we are on a gaming site) One of the defining features of the Switch is that you can play your games on the go.
Now you can argure that thats NOT a defining feature of the Switch because some Switches doesnt work. The battery has died, the screen is crushed, you dropped it in the ocean or it broke in half. So you cant call the Switch a portable console since some cant do that.
Thats silly. Some Switches may have a defect, but it IS what the system is supposed to do.
Your are just arguing semantics because you have nothing else to contribute to the discussion. You just want to be right at all costs.
