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And then when everyone is everything then no one is anything.

• ok_dad 5y ago
  Awesome sounds good to me. Labels don’t make the person, actions do.
  • TimTheTinker 5y ago
    Labels are what we use to categorize and assign meaning to the world, like it or not. Think about it - without an "autism" label, how do we communicate or think clearly about research, diagnosis, treatment, and social structures to help people who suffer with this category of symptoms? It's like talking about coding or doing math without variables, making decisions without criteria, or reasoning philosophically without definitions. Coherent thinking relies on the ability to categorize and label.
    • ok_dad 5y ago
      Maybe in research for disease or other things, but in my opinion labeling people doesn’t turn out well. Communist, socialist, fascist, etc. Disabled, gay, straight, white, brown, black; those labels don’t help much. Even labels like engineers vs. developers causes friction. Sure, medical doctors can use labels to separate people so that they can then investigate within a group what’s causing some disease, but a hundred years ago they used to label certain people as having a disease where today we see was incorrect, like labeling promiscuous women or labeling someone we might see today as autistic as having a problem with their brain that caused them to be inferior. You can’t always just take the rational approach that labels don’t cause real issues, since not everyone is rational. Labels cause problems when applied too liberally, and making sense of the world isn’t always necessary in that respect. We need to focus on what’s important, not always categorizing every little thing based on our idea of importance we assign to those labels. Labels have a way of sticking, and mislabeling things can’t always be corrected.
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