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Are humans as simple as cars though? And why does sexuality get represented by the energy source n your analogy? Why doesn’t sexuality get represented by other characteristics? Perhaps because “there’s only two kinds - sedans and pickups” sounds a little silly?
It’s much more fundamental than that. A better example would be how many axles a road vehicle can have to be considered a road vehicle. You might reasonably conclude that the number starts at one and essentially goes to infinity and you’d be right. But somewhere, deep in academia, some critical theorists are going to get upset that you’ve excluded zero and excluded the all the real numbers. They are going to call thi…
Yeah, I'm thinking you don't have much exposure to real world trucking and lift axles at all.
It's not uncommon for heavy load truck trailers to have axles that are only dropped to the road to take up a heavy load and are retracted for lighter and no loads to extend the lifetime of tyres and bearings.
Operationally, over their road time, the number of axles in contact with tarmac becomes fractional.
If you're going to make sweeping claims about "the real world" it's best to be across all those pesky actual edge cases.