• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Guess what?

    You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.

    Let me give you an example:

    1. Give an innocent child a candy
    2. Run over an innocent child’s foot
    3. Blow up an innocent child with C4

    2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.

    Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your “all bad things are equally bad” routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.

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      6 hours ago

      Right so you go with 1.

      You don’t go with left fash/2 or right fash/3, those are out of the question.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s such a cool story.

        Too bad this isn’t a discussion about that option. We’re discussing the difference between option 2 and option 3, or the lack thereof.

        Dude, wtf man. This isn’t complicated, I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time of it.

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          And we’re discussing how some “options” are not options at all, they fall under the bad label and the degree of difference is irrelevant.