Your example highlights the problems that arise when “this particular person” is replaced with “a representative of this class of people”—a common thing in our age of identity politics.
The solution should be simple—don’t define sheep by what they look like, define them by what they do. That which spends its time munching grass is a sheep, that which runs around biting everyone is not, even though it may look like a sheep when standing still.
Your example highlights the problems that arise when “this particular person” is replaced with “a representative of this class of people”—a common thing in our age of identity politics.
The solution should be simple—don’t define sheep by what they look like, define them by what they do. That which spends its time munching grass is a sheep, that which runs around biting everyone is not, even though it may look like a sheep when standing still.