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Tue 2010-08-10 20:39 |
Does "distinction without a difference" cover the first case?
There are plenty of people who clearly don't distinguish internally the second case: try proposing something suboptimal in front of them and watch the moral outrage fly. Highly prevalent in the geek community, but you can also find people elevating the conventional choices of middle class lifestyles and property ownership to moral imperatives.
The first case also tells you something useful: your interlocutor thinks there is a distinction. The two concepts in their mind are separate. |
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