See also “let’s be pragmatic”. “Pragmatic” can be used to short-circuit any debate when the interlocutor arbitrarily decides that you care too much about whatev

See also “let’s be pragmatic”. “Pragmatic” can be used to short-circuit any debate when the interlocutor arbitrarily decides that you care too much about whatever subject. Like, do you think that adding tests in this PR will give us concrete, tangible results? Well no... but in the long term it will make the application more robust and review more streamlined and— and now the other guy has rhetorically won because he has a snippy “pragmatic” argument while you replied with a whole paragraph. Let’s be pragmatic. I care about working code. I care about the bottom-line of the business. On and on and on.