is true praise, especially when they don't mean it that way.
“You’re being pedantic.”
“I’m describing the difference between invasion and being invaded. Civilisations have occasionally found that distinction useful.”
Nadia shook her head.
“This is why these conversations are impossible. You keep retreating into facts.”
I stared at her.
It remains one of the finest accusations ever made against me.
Nadia reminds me of Occasional-Cortex insisting that people were "more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right." In her definition of 'morally right', of course.
I will throw in it's leftists, after a brutal murder, telling people to 'train with hammers' like the communist who murdered a woman, because that's such a morally correct thing...
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Thank you for this post.
It brought to mind Ronald Reagan's statement: "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
High praise indeed, and this essay is well worth reading (and bookmarking).
-lg
Reminds me of a boss I had once who brought every one in and told them that we were being too precise that there was a point in project management where it can be "good enough"
I wondered about if that would also be like "close enough" in the accounting department , or payroll,, or "meh, close enough" in the engineering dept, or "whatever" in the QC dept.
You see, stupidity like that is what causes bridges to collapse, building to crumble in earthquakes and people to die in health care.
Doing a shitty job is worse than not starting one. It'd called enshitififcation. And is totally third world thinking.
Other than the Israeli, I can gaur-on-damn-tee you that nobody else at that table ever got punched in the nose. And it shows.
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