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You're taking that phrase too literally. He's saying that someone in charge of operating or maintaining something as potentially deadly as a semi truck should h
by kemitche 8y ago
You're taking that phrase too literally. He's saying that someone in charge of operating or maintaining something as potentially deadly as a semi truck should hold themselves to higher standards of ethics, not that there's some sort of direct correlation between weight and ethics.
- grkvlt 8y agoThen he shouldn't have used the word 'implies' as a conjunction, he should have said 'ought to mean', or 'should require you to be' instead.
- ben509 8y agoThere's no discernible consequence to him not satisfying your hyper-literalism, so why "should" he use your preferred phrasing?
- grkvlt 8y agoI'd hardly call it hyper-literalism, since he's the one not using the English language properly - that is, he failed to communicate his ideas accurately.