-The Murray Rule is a fine illustration of the [use of conventions as a symmetry-breaker](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/): instead of having to [flip a coin every time](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615130139/http://singinst.org/upload/CFAI.html#foot-15) you want to talk about a hypothetical human in the third person,
+The Murray Rule is a fine illustration of the [use of conventions to break the symmetry](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/) between arbitrary choices: instead of having to [flip a coin every time](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615130139/http://singinst.org/upload/CFAI.html#foot-15) you want to talk about a hypothetical human in the third person, you pick a convention _once_, and let the convention pick the pronouns—and _furthermore_, Murray is proposing, you can use the sex of the author as an "input" to achieve determinism without the [traditional sexism of the generic masculine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Generic_he) or the modernized sexism of the generic feminine.