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[–]nsoc 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

if i rob you 6 inched it's not as bad as 9.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is not the argument. If you steal 9 dollars and pay back 6 dollars that is progress towards restitution.

However, these hyperbolic metaphors just get everyone who has ever felt wronged in any way what so ever riled up into a mob. Everyone thinks they are on the same page yet everyone has a different interpretation of what it actually means. That is how you get a bunch of people to fight for something they don't really believe in by attaching it to a single grand point that sounds right so long as you don't really think about it.

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Yes, the ever present "I stand for (whatever)" when in fact the truth is "I stand AGAINST (an opposite)". Such as commies stating they are for the common man when in fact they simply hate the rich.