• FfaerieOxide
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    111 months ago

    If know one knows that bit of information, how can it possibly be relevant to anything?

    The lot of us live and die without knowing it.

    • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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      011 months ago
      1. We do know. Just not with 100% certainty.
      2. The number of people who know about something has no bearing on its relevance. For example, the majority of people live and die without knowing how the internet works, yet it’s indisputably one of the most important pieces of technology to exist today.
      • FfaerieOxide
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        111 months ago

        So you know, but you don’t know, and it’s important info, but not so important dying without ever learning would in any way affect you?

        • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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          011 months ago

          So you know, but you don’t know

          I feel like you’re being intentionally obtuse here. Outside of the realm of math, you can’t know anything with absolute certainty. So if you want to phrase things this way, then yes, people know things, but no one “knows” anything.

          but not so important dying without ever learning would in any way affect you?

          It does affect you. If you experience problematic symptoms and want to determine what the root problem is, how do you go about diagnosing it? Part of the process would include ruling out certain sex-linked diseases based on our best guess at which chromosomes you have.

          • FfaerieOxide
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            111 months ago

            It does affect you.

            Not if you can live and die without ever knowing what your karyotype is it doesn’t.

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              11 months ago

              I see. You’re using a different definition for the word “affect”. In the future, you should consider properly defining words if you want to use them differently from the rest of the English speaking population. Otherwise you’re just wasting everyone’s time.