• @Sidhean@lemmy.world
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      312 days ago

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

      • @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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        212 days 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
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          412 days 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.