TheOtherDave comments on EY "Politics is the Mind Killer" sighting at Washington Examiner and Reason.com - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 29 September 2012 07:26:38PM 2 points [-]

I try to interpret ambiguity charitably, so usually when it irritates me the issue isn't ambiguity, but actual exclusiveness.

A sentence like "We seek out mates among attractive members of the opposite sex," for example, isn't ambiguous at all; it simply excludes some queers from its subject.

And, just to be clear: the speakers of such sentences are free to do so, and should be.

I bring it up only because army1987 seemed to be drawing potentially false inferences from silence: the reality is I am sometimes bothered by it.