2/ To describe someone's actions as cruel implies that: * they entirely agree with you on the costs (huge) * they entirely agree with you on the benefit (small) * their motivation for the policy is to cause distress I disagree with progs on lots of things, but ...
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14/ thanks I hate it (but, seriously tho, I think you're right, but ... man, this is some 1984 shit, where Oceania and Eurasia use identical tactics bc they've converged on the ultimate tools)https://twitter.com/Jubalnc/status/1394993066272985089 …
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I just find it unnecessarily reductive. It's just used as a synonym for "bad", and really conveys nothing else to me. Even "suboptimal" is better because it implies a stepping stone to discussions on what, exactly, optimal looks like.
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I’m ngl, I absolutely will replace ‘I think’ with ‘I feel’ as a crass rhetorical device. I feel it gets me farther with some people.
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Also, the same standards apply to ‘fairness’ or ‘justice;’ these terms presume shared values and subjective opinions.
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