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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
Did we already talk about how many legs a sheep would have if you call its tail a leg?
Here's what the folks over at snopes have to say
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sheep, legs, tails, men, property, slave, free, is, is not
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this is easy footfootfoot. There's a pretty well defined difference between a tail and a leg. Calling a tail a leg does not make it one. I agree completely with this.
Men, property, slaves, freedom, these terms are not as simple as a lamb's tail. What a man is depends more on context, as does slavery and freedom. Gender is much closer to these than it is to a lamb's tail when it comes to absolute definition.