• Realitätsverlust@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    Only about one out of every hundred people is born with red hair

    Which is significantly more than people having a third arm.

    If one out of every hundred people was born with three arms

    Yes, but they’re not. That’s the entire point.

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      13 hours ago

      I get the sense that you don’t have nearly as firm a grasp on language and communication as you think you do. You explicitly made reference to a hypothetical situation in which 100 people are born with two arms and 1 person is born with three, and then made a statement about how we would act in that hypothetical situation. If your entire point was that a shockingly small fraction of the population is born with three arms, you should not have used a nearly 1% proportion in your hypothetical.

      But also, the proportion of the population doesn’t even matter. If some humans are born with three arms, then you have to acknowledge that humans can be born with three arms. You can say that humans are typically born with two arms, but trying to define human as something that’s born with two arms would be factually incorrect.