![]() The date was over right there, how dare this asshole label and group me like that. I was explaining to my date that they used yo be funny to me when I was younger but now as I’m older, mugshots depress me more than anything. Some reason the topic of mugshots came up, specifically ones of incarcerated people. I like to point to a date I had a couple of years ago. I’m a person who doesn’t much like being labeled or labeling/grouping/tribal thinking. I have this idea that when people are labeled and grouped they become someone else’s bias and more intelligent understandings stop or slow down. Labels are tools, we should always keep that in mind. The problems arise when someone gets a wrong idea of what a label means, or when they focus too much on their own labels while ignoring their meaning. But everyone can see a human being and think "yeah, that looks like a person alright." Labels let you say: "Hi, I am a middle-aged, heterosexual, italian-american father of 3, and I am also a vegetarian, a protestant christian, and a football fan" (just an example I made up) and people who have interacted with protestant christians, football fans, vegetarians, straight men, etc, can get an idea of what you're like without having to actually get to know you. Nobody knows for sure what a person truly is, where the definition ends or begins, what truly defines a man, or a woman. That abstraction is what lets us interact with things we don't understand, by putting them in little boxes. To develop a common code, we need a capacity for abstraction. To properly communicate, we need a common code. ![]() There's also a lot to be said about the importance of language and the way it changes the way we think. We place labels on everything because it lets us understand the world. New to reddit? Click here! Get flair in /r/science Previous Science AMA's Repeat or flagrant offenders will be banned.Comments dismissing established findings and fields of science must provide evidence.Criticism of published work should assume basic competence of the researchers and reviewers. ![]() Non-professional personal anecdotes will be removed.No off-topic comments, memes, low-effort comments or jokes.All submissions must have flair assigned.No blogspam, images, videos, or infographics.Research must be less than 6 months old.No editorialized, sensationalized, or biased titles. ![]() No summaries of summaries, re-hosted press releases, or reposts.Directly link to published peer-reviewed research or media summary. ![]()
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