This implies taking steps to bring about a social order less violence-prone could never be ‘concrete’. The only help is self-help. Rather than self-help being distinctly second-best. No self-help solution here should for a second forget the insanity of the regular need for it.https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1211425971863203845 …
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Replying to @jholbo1 @ben_r_hoffman
Trying to influence people is less 'concrete' than self-defense because you have less control over the outcome. Generally when I think of "acting concretely" I mean "have a discrete task you have a high chance of accomplishing."
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @jholbo1
So proving a simple theorem in your head is concrete, but attempting a complicated easy-to-botch recipe is abstract?!?!?!
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There are multiple axes on which things can become more or less abstract, and discreteness and likelihood of completion of tasks are only two of them.
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