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[–]VioletRemi 19 insightful - 13 fun19 insightful - 12 fun20 insightful - 13 fun -  (3 children)

If we renamed "4" as "5", then 2+2 = 5. However, 2+3 = what now? "assigned 5 originally"?

[–]lefterfield 17 insightful - 11 fun17 insightful - 10 fun18 insightful - 11 fun -  (2 children)

Coercively assigned 5 at birth. :D

[–]VioletRemi 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Numbers are not being born, tho!

[–]Complicated-Spirit 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Made me think of a tweet I once saw in which an absolutely brilliant TRA, who should totally be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for this genius thinking that has solved so many problems, declared that all children should not be given a name (since those are gendered) or “assigned a sex” at birth, but a number. They can then freely choose what they want to be later, when they’re older, without their parents.

Someone responded with, “But what if they’re assigned an even number and they identify as an odd one?”