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its legitimate. distasteful but legitimate.
by edoceo 6y ago
its legitimate. distasteful but legitimate.
- inetknght 6y agoThe word you're looking for is "legal". It's legal. It's illegitimate but legal.
- CamelCaseName 6y agoThe first three results on Google show the definition of legitimate as "allowed by law". If you want to make a moral argument for why it shouldn't be allowed, then do that.
- spoonjim 6y agoThe etymology of “legitimate” and “legal” are shared but they have very different meanings. If you are not a native speaker of English then these connotations can be hard to discern since word meanings are fluid and regional, but at least in the US the meanings are quite different.
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- anigbrowl 6y agoIt's legal, but not necessarily legitimate. Informally, people use the latter terms to articulate their view of what the law should be, rather than what it is.
- edoceo 6y agowhy use a word with a known definition to try to mean the near opposite? its confusing. if you think the thing sucks, just say it sucks.
- anigbrowl 6y agoMany words have multiple definitions, as you are surely aware. Legitimate is one of them.
- edoceo 6y agoyep, all the definitions of legitimate equivocate it to legal/lawful. except here, y'all want it to mean not-lawful. I'm legitimately not smart enough to continue this conversation.
- worik 6y agoDepends if morals matter. If right and wrong are important then "legitimate" encompass them. So it s possible for something to be legal but not legitimate. There are not a lot of legal but absolutely immoral (the other way, illegal but legitimate - plenty) the actions of the FANG IMO definitely fall into the category of legal but illegitimate. Because to me good and evil are important considerations
- anigbrowl 6y agoThat's just not true. Please don't make things up. Here are two (abridged) definitions from the Oxford dictionary: 1. conforming to the law or to rules 2. make legitimate; justify or make lawful. You're choosing to ignore the verb make in the second definition, describing the act of conferring legitimacy on something, which necessarily implies that it was previously lacking.
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- drw85 6y agoThe second example literally says "make legitimate". You're trying too hard to be right. :D