Comment on Anon takes up microdosing

• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  … Yes, that is why I said:

  If this idiot had gone from… a .22 pellet … skipped over .22short, skipped over .22lr… and gone to .223?

  Did you not read the second sentence?

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  • hobovision@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh I guess I’m confused how your first sentence is related to the rest of your post?

    Sorry, but that “if” is doing a lot of work when the rest of it seems like you’re building a strawman to beat.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      -.-

      The first sentence is a general description of this guy’s approach to reality.

      Everything after that is an explanation of a hypothetical scenario, meant to further illustrate the danger of this way of thinking.

      …

      It isn’t a strawman.

      A strawman is when you intentionally distort a person’s argent or beliefs into a bastardized version that is easier to argue against or criticize.

      Neither is this an attempt to… slander this person by spreading a false version of the story.

      He obviously did not shoot a .223 into his leg at point blank, I never said he did, I in fact made it explicitly clear that this had not happened with the sentence I quoted.

      If he had actually shot himself with a .223… best case scenario, he misses bone, and loses about a golfball of flesh.

      If he had fired a .223 into his own leg and hit bone, the bone would have shattered and then torn up even more of muscle tissue.

      And in really any of these scenarios, with any caliber, he’s lucky he didn’t hit his femoral or other major artery, because he could have bled to unconsciousness in 15 minutes or less, and then died.

      …

      But anyway, see how I used ‘if,’ in those above sentences about hypotheticals?

      Yes, ‘if’ does in fact greatly modify a sentence’s meaning… that is how English works.

      I am not building a strawman to defeat.

      I am laying out a hypothetical that shows what could have happened if his leg shot with a .22 short managed to be a through and through, or not cause him so much pain as to convince him to stop trying to buff his natural bullet resistance stat irl.

      …

      Entirely serious question: Have you not graduated high school, or maybe English is not your first language?

      You don’t seem to have very good reading comprehension; you are missing words and unable to parse a somewhat, but not very, complex sentence structure.

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      • hobovision@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “His way of thinking wouldn’t work because if he skipped a bunch of steps in his process, it would blow off his leg” isn’t the great argument you think it is.

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