MichaelGR comments on Conversation Halters - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 February 2010 03:00PM

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Comment author: MichaelGR 21 February 2010 08:40:59AM 0 points [-]

A rarer and sillier objection: the argument to coolness. "Why are you getting so upset about this? It's not like it, or anything else, matters that much."

I've often heard a variation of:

"Well, it's not like we can do anything about it anyway, eh?"

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