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0 pointsafavour4y ago0 comments

Right but that’s a matter of life or death. Let’s have some perspective. Another comparison is perhaps a small back road that no one ever drives down. How many years do you keep maintaining it before you close it off?

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marginalia_nu4y ago

The point of the example is that there are things that are useful even if they are not frequently used. You simply cannot equate use with usefulness.

xg154y ago

Wouldn't you have to ask where exactly the back road leads to?

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