arbitrariness

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As a student at the University of Chicago, he became fascinated with the ways her work “gave you a view of the arbitrariness of cultural mores, cultural systems.”

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

For others, dog meat has served as a provocative thought exercise about the arbitrariness of the moral value humans assign to animals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

She particularly focuses on what she calls the "arbitrariness" and the damage it has caused.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023

Human beings are strange, though we often don’t like to admit to the arbitrariness of many of our conventions or the contradictions inherent in our behaviors.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2023

Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond