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If there is one thing humans have some skill in, is taking a continuous spectrum, carving it into discrete pieces, and then treating the pieces as fundamentally different.
* Planets vs comets vs asteroids
* Finches
* Genders
* Libertarian philosophy
Flame-wars, academic skirmishes, and outright libel have been used in the prosecution of these conflicts.
@sysadmin1138 I think that's literally true.
An instinct to label things is part of what makes humanity special among the beasts.
It was an important first step towards language and intellectual thought.
As instincts go, it's far from perfect, but it's probably done us a lot more good than harm.
