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labeling

I agree with you that labeling can be necessary at times and it is just the way humans work. There are many theories that argue that human brains, from a very young age, organize surroundings into categories (schemas). One thing will be connected to another and then to another. The brain itself categorizes automatically, so it can't be that wrong that we do so as well, right?

I understand what you mean when you say, "I don't think its wrong to make categories/to label...what we do need to change however is the stereotypes each label/category carries with it." However, I still think that labeling has gone too far and people label things not for necessity, but rather for convenience?

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