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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2927920" data-attributes="member: 13892">Your 'equation' is better know as a logic fallacy (circular cause and consequence, specifically). One must take it on faith that the genre classification system forces people to think a certain way and, thus, they created the classification system because of how their creation forced them to think. In other words, it is invalidated by virtue of it very nature.Fixing this fallacy is easy enough, though - what came first genre classification or consumers? (The answer is "consumers"). Therefore, genre classification cannot be held solely responsible for the opinions that consumers form unless one is to argue that, prior to genre classification, consumers were incapable of forming opinons based on personal tastes. [Incidentally, proving that last bit is the only way to debunk my argument that personal taste, not genre classification is responsible for what an individual considers good, bad, or entertaining.]</blockquote>