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> They each have a number of pigeonholes they want to put people in

I'm not sure it's entirely fair to consider it that way. Bureaucracy work on Binary options because that generally makes things a lot easier. It's a hack. It might not be perfect for every individual to answer questions - but it makes organisation a lot smoother.

The officer was happy with the answer to his question about spying; so he decided it was not relevant to include it.

To me that sounds like bureaucracy working a little bit :)

It is when it goes wrong that it goes really wrong...

(It's like the gender question; if I ever have to ask for gender, which is infrequent, now I will consistently ask "what reproductive organs do you have?"))



It may be better to pigeonhole people depending on which sex chromosomes they have (and how many of each), rather than what reproductive organs they have.

This helps cater for aneuploid people, as well as people who have underwent gender changes.




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