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by mostlylurks 930 days ago
Even if you were to label it as such, how would that prove the original point? Labeling a trait as a medical condition does not make it vanish. If that alleged 3-5% of the population does not share the trait that you claim is universal, then that trait is simply not universal, regardless of what status or judgement you decide to assign to whatever commonality those alleged 3-5% of the population have. The two matters are completely orthogonal.
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Well put. Also, Vladimir Nabokov famously did not like music, or perhaps more accurately, was completely indifferent to it. I've never heard this ascribed to a medical condition. And I've met one or two people in my life who claimed not to like music.