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Nihil

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3. Succinct summary of the issue there ...
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 05:06 AM
Feb 2012

>> If Cassandra pushes our awareness of the problematique without offering solutions for it,
>> she will often be held in mild contempt by almost everyone. (The word "whining" is often
>> spoken in this circumstance.) But if she offers effective solutions, which are necessarily
>> radical, people who don't share her perception of the problematique will often assume
>> that she offers her solutions not because she thinks they are necessary responses to
>> an unavoidable problem, but because she will get some payoff from the solutions that
>> they won't, or they will assume that she desires the harm her solutions would necessarily
>> do them. These assumptions can lead to their hating her. Disingenuous opponents will
>> assert that she desires the harm her solutions would necessarily cause.

RIP.

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