• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            What part of “Nope, they’re right. You are not owed any respect by anyone” makes me singled out for you not wanted to be respected by? Because that is the comment I authored and you said that is why you didn’t want respect from me.

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              4 months ago

              “And” doesn’t mean causality.

              Archimedes designed siege devices and died at Siracuse. Him designing siege devices is not the reason for him dying.

              I agree that nobody owes me respect (I actually like it, because it removes the balancing part) and I’d not want respect from you. The latter is not a consequence of the former.

              Also “I’d not want respect from you” in natural languages can mean “I want no respect from you” or literal meaning, I meant the latter.

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                    4 months ago

                    Either you don’t want my respect because I agree with you or you don’t want my respect because you think Jiggle_Physics and I are the same person. There is no third option here, sorry. A follows B.