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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Humans are the only animals that create/invent "social constructs." Humans - Homo sapiens -are a relatively new/young species, and we are only one of the 8.7 million different plant and animal species known to exist. Depending on which source you cite, the human species first emerged between 50 and 200 thousands years ago. But there's documented evidence that organisms began sexually reproducing at least 1.2 billion years ago - and many biologists believe that sexual reproduction began more like 2 billion years ago.

To suggest that sex is a social construct that humans invented is incredibly arrogant. Humans are part of nature, not nature's originators.

If humans were to go extinct like the dinosaurs did, which is a very real possibility, millions of other species on planet Earth would still go on reproducing sexually. Millions of other animal and plant species would still come in two basic forms - male and female - and the only way they could procreate and perpetuate themselves would be by the merger of ova and sperm.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Humans are the only animals that create/invent "social constructs."

I'd argue that other social mammals (i.e. dogs and dolphins and the other great apes) also have socially-constructed roles (e.g. pack leader), though aligned to a more "classical" axis of power driven by biology and development (wherein older, more experienced members of the pack sit atop the social hierarchy.

However, in contrast to the types of created/invented/semantic social constructs which humans impose upon each other inorganically, the types found in animal species are [let's call it] inherited, in that they're assumed via consensus among all members and are intent-agnostic.

Only humans are distractible, gullible, and certain individuals frankly stupid enough to fall for the propagandistic, intent-antagonistic type of social engineering bullshit that is TWAW.