Heh. Such a nice example of motte and bailey.
Behold, here is your bailey:
meme ... containing "enslave all women and use them as breeding cattle" could survive indefinitely
and here is your motte:
a meme that asserts "women are inferior beings and they should be treated as such" does not pose an immediate threat to the surivival of a tribe
You do notice the difference, right? :-)
You do notice the difference, right? :-)
I'm not clear where you place the controversy.
Do you think that the striking difference is between the degree of bad treatment (enslaving vs treating as inferior) or the survivability of the meme (survive indefinitely vs not an immediate threat)?
In the second case, that's not my motte, because I clearly state that I think "not an immediate threat" yelds "indefinite survivability".
In the first case, I can just notice that you think there's a sharp divide where I see just a continuum between the ...
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