I wonder. Not all cultures do use these words this way. It is common in Chinese society, for example, to call a close female friend of the family “aunt” even without any blood relation, and in the West “sisterhood” and “brotherhood” are widely used to express sympathetic bonds irrespective of sibling connections. Many cultures have a flexibility of familial relations that does not inevitably reduce them to blood and birth.
No, the problem here is not that biology destroys our traditional categories and concepts of human life, but that we too often now fall into the trap of imagining that biology can and should arbitrate on socially mediated questions of self and identity, family and kinship, sex and gender. Biology has a habit of declining that role, handing back (so I like to see it) the responsibility and saying, “you, not I, are the ones who care about these issues, so you must decide them for yourself.”
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