arbitrariness

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But being a trans woman in a society that devalues womanhood breaks that inherent hierarchy and makes its arbitrariness all the more visible.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 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

“There is a huge amount of arbitrariness that’s built into it.”

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2023

Yet the arbitrariness of opportunity and vocation — who gets to make art? who has to dig ditches? — is clear and pointed.

From New York Times • May 21, 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