Is equality a social construct?

>>2048626
Yes. Obviously.

>>2048626
Yes. So is 'oppression'.
And 'social constructs'.

It's turtles all the way down, mate.

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>>2048626
Yes. So are rights. And democracy.

>>2048626
Yes, everything is inherently unequal, however minuscule the difference is

>>2048644
Are spooks social constructs, or are social constructs spooks?

>>2048644
wtf I love social constructs now

>>2048626
Yes, look out the window anon, is anything in nature equal?

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>>2048749
>is anything in nature equal?
Death

>>2048626
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>>2048626
Yes, like almost everything else. There is nothing inherently good or bad about something being a social construct (and likewise, nothing inherently good or bad about being "natural")

>>2048693
words and meaning are social constructs.

>>2048626
Strictly speaking, everything that isn't fully material is.

>>2048693
Social constructs are literally anything that only has value because humanity collectively agrees that it does. Authority, money, rights, law, all are social constructs.

>>2048626

yes, there's no such things as equality beyond the essence of man, all things in sociality have an inequality to it

>>2048693
Social constructs are spooks if you believe they exist on their own or that you have to act as if they exist on their own. Sometimes it is in your self-interest to act as if they exist though - if you don't want to get into a car crash you probably should follow the rules of the road even though these are ultimately just agreements.

>>2048644
so is government, law, morality, virtue, and the internet.

>>2048787
Death, procreation, and life. Also disease.

>>2049987
>when you run over 24 pedestrians in the crosswalk because red lights are spooks

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more like difference is a social construct

>Nature hath made men so equall, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he. For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himselfe.

>And as to the faculties of the mind, (setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born with us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat els,) I find yet a greater equality amongst men, than that of strength. For Prudence, is but Experience; which equall time, equally bestowes on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. That which may perhaps make such equality incredible, is but a vain conceipt of ones owne wisdome, which almost all men think they have in a greater degree, than the Vulgar; that is, than all men but themselves, and a few others, whom by Fame, or for concurring with themselves, they approve. For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equall, than unequall. For there is not ordinarily a greater signe of the equall distribution of any thing, than that every man is contented with his share.