• PeriodicallyPedantic
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    5 hours ago

    Good thing I didn’t say that.
    Too bad you missed when I called both “bad”

    Two things can both be indefensible, and yet still one is preferable. Although you lead with “and”, you seem to be suggesting that this isn’t the case, which is a wild position that doesn’t hold up to even that barest of scrutiny.

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      2 hours ago

      Both are bad, neither is preferable. The world is not binary, you have other options.

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        1 hour ago

        Guess what?

        You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.

        Let me give you an example:

        1. Give an innocent child a candy
        2. Run over an innocent child’s foot
        3. Blow up an innocent child with C4

        2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.

        Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your “all bad things are equally bad” routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.

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          14 minutes ago

          Right so you go with 1.

          You don’t go with left fash/2 or right fash/3, those are out of the question.

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            4 minutes ago

            That’s such a cool story.

            Too bad this isn’t a discussion about that option. We’re discussing the difference between option 2 and option 3, or the lack thereof. You can talk about things you don’t want to choose.

            Dude, wtf man. This isn’t complicated, I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time of it.

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              And we’re discussing how some “options” are not options at all, they fall under the bad label and the degree of difference is irrelevant.