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It may be an exaggeration for effect, but in any walk-in clinic, you're going to get at least one of those a day.

• mistermann 5y ago
  "at least one of those a day" sounds like a vast minority rather than "everyone" though doesn't it?
  • bena 5y ago
    That's why we call it an exaggeration for effect.
    • mistermann 5y ago
      At the time you said it, didn't you believe it to be actually true? I mean, there is a fair amount of truth to it in my experience.
      • bena 5y ago
        I think there was a fair enough number of people who act that way that I didn't think the exaggeration would require this level of explanation.
        • mistermann 5y ago
          I am directly challenging the notion that you considered it an exaggeration at the time you wrote the comment. Considering you were criticizing the judgment of others in the comment, it seems a bit rich to play off examination of yours as somehow unfair or weird. Cognition is often a group activity (comments on social media have effects upon the beliefs of others), and some of us actually take that very real phenomenon seriously.
          • bena 5y ago
            Then you are simply wrong.
            • mistermann 5y ago
              It's certainly plausible, but considering your epistemic track record I am skeptical.
              • bena 5y ago
                Only if you are coming into the discussion in bad faith to try and score points on what you see as technicalities.
                • mistermann 5y ago
                  There can be no other way than bad faith? Not something you may not have thought of or perhaps never encountered before?