But maybe it needn't be always immutable — just generally a matter of deep internal promptings that would take some serious suppressing to get over.
In all the great religious traditions of the world there has been a tension between the instinctive conservatism of religious authorities, who generally see themselves as guardians of a great, immutable body of language, and the need to deliver messages in accessible ways.Islam stands at one end of a spectrum.
Early philosophical study of women by feminist scholars examined the limitations that hampered their own lives, and the lives of women generally, asking whether these resulted from alterable social arrangement or immutable biological destiny.
I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but … are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species….Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification" (Darwin 1859, p. 7).
But like most pollsters when a new poll comes out, I generally cannot help but look at metrics like party identification and other more immutable demographics.
Generally, we grant legal protection only against "discrimination" based on characteristics that are inborn, involuntary, immutable, innocuous, and/or in the Constitution.
Since the anti-segregation cases of the late 1950's, courts have generally required proof that a person was being denied the law's equal protection because of an immutable trait, one that was inborn or could not be changed.
Hate groups are generally classified as any group whose speech "maligns or demeans" an entire group of people, usually based on immutable characteristics.
"As you conduct more of your life and affairs in cyberspace your conditioned notion of a unique and immutable body will give way to a far more liberated notion of 'body' as something quite disposable and, generally, limiting," he said.
