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Re: Morally equivalent


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:14:00 +0200

> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 at 2:05 AM
> From: "Akib Azmain Turja" <akib@disroot.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
>
> Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:
>
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >>> How did a simple phrase generate so much noise on
> >>> this list?
> >>
> >> The noise level on this (and not only this) list is
> >> inversely proportional to the simplicity of the issue.
> >
> > One can only dream of a world where that was reversed, so the
> > the more complicated something was, the more brilliant and
> > to-the-point comments it would get ...
>
> There are many examples of discussions that result in nothing except the
> waste of the time of many people.  This is also "morally" (if not
> completely) equivalent to those discussions.
>
> IMHO, even this message is a waste of time.

The waste of time was arguing for "Morally Equivalent", when an OP wants
a clarification.

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