[ExI] covid or cold?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 3:49 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:39 AM Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 21:40, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 3:27 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you think that letting COVID run unchecked would be better for the
>>>> economy, students, the medical system, mental health?
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> ### This is a trick question, like when you ask somebody if he is
>>> beating his wife.
>>>
>>
>> No, you could honestly answer yes, no or I don’t know without
>> incriminating yourself.
>>
>>> --
>
>
> ### If you ask somebody out of the blue whether he is engaging in heinous
> behavior, you are implying he might be a heinous person. It's an accusation
> masquerading as a question. You don't ask people if they are flat-earthers
> unless you want to cast doubt on their sanity, either.
>

Except that a number of people really do believe that letting COVID run
unchecked would be better for everyone - or at least, they say they do.

That you label this as heinous behavior answers the question in your case:
you clearly do not believe that letting COVID run unchecked would be
better.  A lot of people (perhaps most?) believe that letting it run
unchecked - again, as a number of other people advocate - would indeed be
heinous.
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