• Forester@pawb.social
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        You either like authority or you don’t. That’s binary. How much you like or dislike it is the spectrum.

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          Do you not understand what a spectrum is? It cannot be both binary AND a spectrum. Those two things are mutually exclusive. Bimodal perhaps (though I don’t think it is in this case), but not binary.

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          Or you appreciate authority in some matters, but reject it in others. That’s the point in the spectrum that rejects the simple binary.

          Edit: just realised both my last posts were responding to you. I’m not stalking or weird shit I swear! It just happened I woke up with more opinions!

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        20 hours ago

        the word libertarian literally does mean what I’m telling you though . What your experiencing is that your personal definition is not matching up with everyone else’s reality. You’ve just been misinformed and have only been exposed to a subset of libertarian ideals . To put this in an analogy it’s like if I said truck and you assumed I was talking about a Ford F-350 when in fact I’m referring to all trucks. From tiny k trucks to 18 wheeler big rigs

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          No, what I’m experiencing is the conventional meaning of the term as used by people in normal language not matching up with a technical definition that you favour. It’s fine that you prefer to use the word that way, you just can’t expect everyone else to

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            8 hours ago

            Lol at that person’s reply: “No, but the chart says it’s true!”

            These people have some desperate need for neat little boxes, each with their own designation, to put themselves and others into, and that’s just not how the world works.

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            10 hours ago

            Well you seem to be in the minority here so it would appear that the majority of people understand my definition as correct since that’s the definition as defined in multiple dictionaries.