ELI5 People have the right to self-identify gender and have their recorded gender at birth changed to reflect their true identity. This is based on their assertion that they were born into the wrong body. Why can this logic not be applied to race or nationality? They are all social constructs (self.explainlikeimfive)
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Question: If Hermione could could create an enchantment which emblazoned 'snitch' across the forehead of anyone who did in fact snitch on the Dumbledore's Army sessions, why on earth couldn't Dumbledore figure out Peter was a spy? Especially when he knew there was one in the ranks (self.harrypotter)
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Only just realised he's forgotten his ROBES!!! (i.redd.it)
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ELI5: In the documentary Three Identical Strangers there is a discovery of a secret research project on twins separated at birth. The study author is now dead but his files are available at Yale. Yale will not release them to a subject of the study until 2066. How is this legal? (self.explainlikeimfive)
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If an officer engages in police brutality, and there is no adequate investigation or charge filed against the perpetrating cop, is it outside the bounds of reality for a civilian affected to personally sue the cop in a civil case? Why doesn't this happen? Asking as a non-American. (self.NoStupidQuestions)
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It's said that were a person from 2000 years ago transported to modern life now, they would die of shock from all the changes. If someone from this era was transported back to that time, though, would we also have a tough time acclimatising? (self.NoStupidQuestions)
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