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minus-squarepixxelkick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·3 months agoThe books get destroyed in order to ingest them. They get destroyed first, because its necessary for ingesting. The order in the wording dramatically changes the interpretation of how they sound.
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months ago… They still get destroyed, which is the point. Putting a pink bow tie and a ribbon on a turd doesn’t really make it all that Much better
minus-squarepixxelkick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months ago“Doctor gives a child a vaccine” Vs “Doctor treats child and then stabs her with a needle” You see how those two sentences paint wildly different pictures, the latter being kind of wrong and obviously inflammatory? You cant just go “yeah but she got stabbed with a needle in both, whats the diff” If you cant see the difference in how the sentences present things, then I dunno what to say.
The books get destroyed in order to ingest them.
They get destroyed first, because its necessary for ingesting.
The order in the wording dramatically changes the interpretation of how they sound.
… They still get destroyed, which is the point. Putting a pink bow tie and a ribbon on a turd doesn’t really make it all that Much better
“Doctor gives a child a vaccine”
Vs
“Doctor treats child and then stabs her with a needle”
You see how those two sentences paint wildly different pictures, the latter being kind of wrong and obviously inflammatory?
You cant just go “yeah but she got stabbed with a needle in both, whats the diff”
If you cant see the difference in how the sentences present things, then I dunno what to say.