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Let's swap "good" and "evil" in your statement: > Some people want to cause X (call this "evil"), some people want to cause not-X (call this "good"). If the pe
by stephengillie 13y ago
Let's swap "good" and "evil" in your statement:
> Some people want to cause X (call this "evil"), some people want to cause not-X (call this "good"). If the people who want to cause X fail to act on that want, it makes it more likely that not-X will happen.
Terrorist/freedom fighter, whistleblower/enemy informant, "po-tae-to"/"poh-tah-to", etc.
- pessimizer 13y agoDoesn't matter. "All that is necessary for the triumph of the Lakers is that the rest of the NBA do nothing."
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- stephengillie 13y agoSo you're saying that the entire quote is tautalogically meaningless?
- pessimizer 13y agoNo, I'm saying that it's not a exclusively a comment about good and evil, but a comment about doing nothing to prevent an outcome that you don't want. Also "tautologically."
- stephengillie 13y agoApologies if my wordcrafting isn't correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric)