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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

If some humans aren’t bipedal, the humans are not as a whole bipedal.

So you admit now that sex being a binary does not describe all humans?

Nope sex and race are a spectrum just as species are.

[–]SnowAssMan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Those humans are still bipedal. Neither mutation nor mutilation can change that classification, otherwise people without legs wouldn't be handicapped.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

If not all humans have two legs, then no, humans as a species aren’t bipedal. Your generalized abstraction of reality isn’t how things actually are in the real world.

You’re correct that differently abled people aren’t objectively handicapped, but only subjectively so by the people who believe that their particular set of abilities are the default.

[–]SnowAssMan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Do you not know what a birth defect is?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I don’t believe in them. Today’s “birth defect” is tomorrow’s evolutionary adaptation

[–]SnowAssMan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

So you'd take issue with someone saying that human beings don't have horns because once upon a time a single human had a horn?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yep. It’s insensitive

[–]SnowAssMan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Some people don't believe that it's insensitive, therefore you can't say it's insensitive, since your philosophy prevents you from saying anything that isn't 100% true, 100% of the time.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No I can say something’s insensitive, but it’s just my subjective opinion

[–]SnowAssMan 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Scientific consensus > subjective opinion, therefore humans are bipeds & sex is binary, no amount of variety within dimorphism nor mismatches between chromosomes & phenotypes can alter that, because gonads & gametes are never ambiguous – which is what sex refers to, as it's integral to sexual reproduction.