This bedroom's over in that guy's house! Sir, you have one of my bedrooms, are you aware? Do not decorate it!
And more Mitch Hedburg, illustrating how redrawing the map won't alter the territory.
"What happens if you say that and someone gets offended?" "Well they can be offended. [..] Now you have adults going 'I was offended! I was offended and I have rights!'. Well so what? Be offended. Nothing happens".
Steve Hughes. (link: confusion is in the mind, not the territory - so is offensiveness).
Every month on the month, Less Wrong has a thread where we post Deep Wisdom from the Masters. I saw that nobody did this yet for December for some reason, so I figured I could do it myself.
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