Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
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No, the reason I used time and gravity is because they are not so cut and dry. Time is constantly being studied and theories are constantly being put forth. The thing that we call time is simply a stop gap made so that we would have any easier understanding of our world. Many scientists are trying to better clarify what time actually is. Time is simply the name we give to this feeling of constant change. Some say we can measure it, others say it is immeasurable. Even gravity upon the conception of it's name was not what it is today. The major thing is that these changes and challenges are made with the mind to better understand the names that we have given to those things that we want to understand. This idea that people want to erase the definition of gender is harmful as it is not an attempt to better understand it, it is an attempt to destroy for their sake and theirs alone.
Also, your attempt to dissect my analogy is poorly constructed. Pointing out that 2 people might not see the same color is a poor rebuttal as we already know that color reception and color wavelengths are well documented.
That insistance to latch onto the language aspect does not do anything to prove a point either. It simply shows you have no argument that can challenge the content. Regarding a cultures practices on snow categorizing does not make it any less true. You cannot argue that a word in the language that you are conversing in does not suddenly mean what you want it to mean. You cannot change the rules of a language on your own.