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How is it relevant? The fact that he's proposing an alternative option doesn't change the fact that he's also presenting a completely insane one.
by boring_twenties 7y ago
How is it relevant? The fact that he's proposing an alternative option doesn't change the fact that he's also presenting a completely insane one.
- zamadatix 7y agoIn the same way "We need to stop driving the boat into rocks or..." is relevant context to "...we need to start liking to swim". Just because something is listed as an option does not mean the speaker is interested in actually doing that. It's a speaking pattern meant to convey "we've got to do something about <x> and people don't like <y> (so it's gotta be <x>)". In reality there are almost always more <options> than the duality implies but at no point does the person ever actually want <y>.
- boring_twenties 7y agoI can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something in Tso's statement that seems to me to be quite different from yours. In your example, the fact that the first option is self-evidently correct even in a vacuum, is something of a cue that the second option isn't meant to be taken as seriously. In Tso's statement, it's not immediately clear to me which of the two options he prefers. In fact, his use of the phrase "get over it" leads me to think that is actually his preferred variant. To me, that phrasing means if not an outright trivial and unworthy concern, then at least one that only needs the passage of time. There doesn't seem to be any indication that he's using the phrase ironically or anything. Of course it is always possible that I'm just misreading or misinterpreting it. But that is why the first half didn't, and still doesn't, seem relevant to me.