Lurker123 [he/him]

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  • I’m not sure there’s a person who really believes both of these. I think people who believe premise one actually believe this to be a generally true statement about people (or a generally true statement about some racial subset of people) rather than a statement about all people. This dovetails nicely with their love of billionaires due to them being “hard workers” because it shows the billionaire is somewhat unique and better than most people in that regard.









  • Haha well under that definition, my post would not be genocide because I neither intended it to be such, nor, by your statement did it cause “serious” mental harm. Moreover, based on the UN article it looks like the “in part” requirement has been interpreted to mean a “substantial part.”

    But fair enough, the point is well taken. I’m not a language prescriptivist, so just because the UN used the meaning in a certain way does not make it the meaning of that word. That said, it seems to me that the common usage (based on the wiki article that cites a few different usages) probably does not have a settler exception.





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    1 year ago

    The “magic law” is just the consequence of what it means to be the “same” person. To be the same person, you have to, among other similarities, take up the same spatial-temporal space. This is why if we ask “is Bruce Wayne the same person as Batman” one of the first thoughts is “you know, I’ve never seen them in the same room before.”

    Maybe what you’re getting hung up on here is the split. Let’s imagine there is one river (river A) which goes for a bit before it forks and becomes river b and river c. In some sense, we could say that both river b and river c are river a. But if you’re river b, then river c is not the same as you, and vice versa.