I mean it appears everything outside of physics and chemistry is a social construct (in academia they argue those are SC too).
Biological gender? Social construct! How is having ovaries or testicles a social construct?
Hierarchy? Social construct! Hierarchy appears even in non-living things, never mind most biological systems!
Property? Social construct! Why? How? Why is a solitary apex-hunter delimiting territory "natural" but when bald monkey does it, it's a "social construct"
Finally this "decided as a society..." BS! That just revels your identify with the social class that gets to make the rules. But, unless (maybe) you're Swiss, you have no real political power. The vast majority of Americans despise Trump, didn't like Hillary, and don't want Bernie either. There are more independents than either party (almost than either combined).
But somehow this representative democracy makes decisions that respects with my agency? BS!
Get this even society is not a social construct. That's right! Society arises as soon as you have a handful of people (or agents) finding their place in their interrelationships. Hierarchy will naturally arise from this.
I'm not saying the OPs point are (or aren't) abhorrent. But this social construct and contract thing is getting out of hand.
Yes, lots of things are social constructs. We are social animals, we have created and evolved highly complicated structures. But very little is intrinsic.
The hierarchy in my filesystem has a similar structure to the one in my family tree / political system / place of work. But the fact that they form a shape that has an abstract representation doesn't mean that there's some law of physics that say that humans form hierarchies. Many people form monogamous relationships. You know what else does? Oxygen atoms! Maybe there's a link!
The difference between science and religion (which is in the same ballpark as society) is that if you started from scratch you'd eventually converge on the same observations and scientific theories. Society, on the other hand, could go a very different way.
Other societies decide different things, case in point, America.
I can't be bothered to argue sex vs gender. But if you really think everyone fits neatly into two buckets in a nice bimodal distribution, maybe you haven't met enough people. That's kind of the point - inferring some kind of law, and therefore "should" from "looks like", e.g. Natural Moral Law is flawed.
I understand it's very unsettling that there aren't many certainties in the world. We construct them to make ourselves feel safe. I'm very happy to inhabit that psychological world. But I'm not fooling myself that we're not alone in a cold universe.
I mean it appears everything outside of physics and chemistry is a social construct (in academia they argue those are SC too).
Biological gender? Social construct! How is having ovaries or testicles a social construct?
Hierarchy? Social construct! Hierarchy appears even in non-living things, never mind most biological systems!
Property? Social construct! Why? How? Why is a solitary apex-hunter delimiting territory "natural" but when bald monkey does it, it's a "social construct"
Finally this "decided as a society..." BS! That just revels your identify with the social class that gets to make the rules. But, unless (maybe) you're Swiss, you have no real political power. The vast majority of Americans despise Trump, didn't like Hillary, and don't want Bernie either. There are more independents than either party (almost than either combined).
But somehow this representative democracy makes decisions that respects with my agency? BS!
Get this even society is not a social construct. That's right! Society arises as soon as you have a handful of people (or agents) finding their place in their interrelationships. Hierarchy will naturally arise from this.
I'm not saying the OPs point are (or aren't) abhorrent. But this social construct and contract thing is getting out of hand.