To paraphrase my favorite author:
THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF [LAW], ONE MOLECULE OF [CRIME]…
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xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year agoThis is an argument for punishing wage theft not that crime is a made up concept.
geissi@feddit.de 1 year ago
BassDroid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To call something a social construct doesn’t diminish the impact of that thing. Race is a social construct as well, and that too has very real impacts on people. Much of what humans interact with on a daily basis are social constructs. That doesn’t make those things meaningless or trivial.