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Comment author: dlthomas 13 October 2011 05:10:40PM 2 points [-]

[I]f there isn't a good predominant intention, there must be a predominant intention that isn't good.

Did you borrow that from somewhere? I find it quite a clear statement of a common problem.

Comment author: lessdazed 13 October 2011 09:20:01PM 2 points [-]

Not consciously. But being wrong and saying oops may have helped me take that lesson to heart:

When I was very young, I thought that the ingredients section of a food label had to list, as the first ingredient, something that comprised over 50% of the product. If I still believed this, it would be easy to prove to me that a five-bean salad was mostly kidney beans. Simply show that none of the other four bean types made up a majority of the salad, and there you'd have it!

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