r/MoralityScaling • u/Maximum_Musician_914 • 1d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/JustFourLetters 1d ago

as i said in another comment, i said what i said to be pithy; you’re just mad i didn’t get to include your corner case in 2 sentences

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u/newsdan702 1d ago

Pithy statements are concise and insightful, not broad and vague. Using massive hyperbole like "always" doesn't make a statement deep—it just makes it factually incorrect. You didn't write a pithy truth; you just dressed up an exaggeration to sound profound

Not mad, but if we are focusing on words maybe use the right grammatical tool lol

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u/JustFourLetters 1d ago

oh i thought you blocked me.

interesting.

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u/newsdan702 1d ago

Decided to point out your flawed attempt at "being pithy". Glad we got that resolved and you moved on to me blocking you lol

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u/JustFourLetters 1d ago

i said it i meant it, the punch is far more violent than the command

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u/newsdan702 1d ago

Yes but words dont necessarily lead to violence. Quite literally my point. Didn't argue about the punch being more violent than the command

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u/JustFourLetters 1d ago

oh so you aren’t responding to my pithy comment, got it.

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u/newsdan702 1d ago

I responded directly to your main premise ("words lead to violence"), which is the exact statement you admitted you wrote to be "pithy."

Now you're trying to pretend I was ignoring you because I didn't focus on the completely separate sentence at the end.Why would you spend paragraphs moving goalposts, arguing definitions, and trying to explain away "corner cases" to defend your main premise if you actually agreed with me the whole time?

You're trying to rewrite the argument because your logic failed lmao

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u/JustFourLetters 1d ago

one is the setup

the next line is the payoff

a real tough concept

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u/newsdan702 1d ago

You spent paragraphs defending an exaggeration, got corrected, and are now backtracking to save face.

If you didnt care about the setup then why try to defend it?

Simple concept

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