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In this strawman argument, are you asserting that lidocaine prevents the punch from causing physical damage?

• kelseyfrog 4y ago
  If the author was implying damage, he did an incredibly poor job at conveying that. He said "hurt" not "damage."
  • stonogo 4y ago
    You're going to have a frustrating time if you use that kind of pedantry to build a bad-faith interpretation of the proposed argument. "Joey got hurt in the boxing match" does not generally mean he was offended by the color of his opponent's shorts, and when someone talks about a punch in the face hurting someone they're using the broadest sense of the word 'hurt,' which is commonly accepted to encompass all of emotional pain, physical damage, and the deleterious effect of violence on any given community. Choosing the specific definition that makes the argument weakest isn't really productive unless you're just looking to get mad about something.
    • kelseyfrog 4y ago
      Language is always evolving, and words do not always need to be tethered to their denotative meaning for us to understand what people mean.
      • stonogo 4y ago
        That would be an insightful comment if you hadn't just deliberately misinterpreted someone by tethering yourself to an overly-specific denotative meaning.