• PoPoP@lemm.ee
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        23 hours ago

        You really need to think about the worst case when you use the word “all”

        Think about the most acne-ridden, morbidly obese, ungroomed, mentally ill, racist incel with the worst hygiene. But hey, he plays starcraft and learned some computer programming. Down to smash?

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            4 hours ago

            You said “all nerds are sexy” you’re contradicting yourself here. Maybe you meant “nerdiness is sexy” but that is not what you said.

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              2 hours ago

              Or perhaps you’re reading a parlance a little too literally. You’re right, that is what I meant in a literal sense, and it seems like we got there!

              If someone says “redheads are hot,” do you also chime in with “come on now, surely you don’t think a redhead who doesn’t bathe and also is a racist Nazi is hot”?

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                2 hours ago

                if someone said “redheads are hot” i’d say “alright”

                if someone said “all redheads are hot” i’d say “that’s bullshit and you know it”

                one is a generalization the other is an absolute statement