RobinZ comments on Rationality and the English Language - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 25 October 2009 02:53:03AM 0 points [-]

Excellent point - the trouble is not that the writer used a passive construction, but that they obscured WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THI...I mean, the actor. And the victim and the process, now that I think of it.