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by gdy 2001 days ago
"Along with gender, being human is a socially defined concept"

This is priceless))

1 comments

As much as I agree with the general spirit of your reply, I think there is some merit to think of posterboy.human() being a socially defined concept.

It's recently became a loaded term (much like gender) due to people in general using the term like that. See expressions like "humane" or "transhuman".

I would prefer if they used some other word instead of overloading the method, but oh well.

Maybe by 'human' they just meant 'sapient'?