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 …
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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Generally, talking to people is not "concrete." Talking is closer to being concrete the closer it is to being a command, but if it's open-ended, it isn't "doing something", it's having a conversation.
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So, "pray that you can exhibit the courage of the man who shot the shooter in Texas" is not a concrete action by your definition. But I'm guessing that's not your point? If not, what is it?
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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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