murrkat

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   by murrkat 4y ago

   Begging the question.
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   by murrkat 4y ago

   Is there not a chance one of the young men offering open labs or tutoring might, in fact, be intelligent, enthusiastic about the sciences and decent ?
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   by murrkat 4y ago

   Agreed about the strawmanning. (Ahem, “strawpersoning”?) Seems to be a common rhetorical tactic to substitute untoward “downstream” effect with a system itself. (“Because System X can be exploited for unwanted behavior Y, we need to condemn
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   by murrkat 4y ago

   “Disgusted and uncomfortable” with a specific person's behavior or by the idea itself?
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   by murrkat 4y ago

   Anything not “equally accessible to all” is antithetic evil. It is more just for everyone to be worse off than advantage to accrue to the already advantaged.