Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits::Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

  • seaQueue
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    1 year ago

    It’s possible for more than one thing to be bad, we don’t have to pick just one of the two.

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      1 year ago

      “worse” generally means more bad than another thing that is also bad.

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        1 year ago

        It also implies that one (the worst one) deserves more attention. In this case we should probably be paying attention to both.

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            1 year ago

            No, they said it was “far worse,” which definitely implies a ranking of how bad they perceive the respective issues.

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              1 year ago

              It’s possible for more than one thing to be bad, we don’t have to pick just one of the two.

              This is what they said; they implied the root comment was saying that two things couldn’t be bad or only one could be solved. But it didn’t. He said, paraphrasing, “there are two issues and I find this one to be far worse”.

              Ranking issues in terms of how bad they are seems a fairly normal thing to do. It also implies that there is more than one.

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                1 year ago

                they implied the root comment was saying that two things couldn’t be bad or only one could be solved.

                I don’t agree with that interpretation.

                They simply stated that ranking things by “badness” also implies a ranking in terms of which one of those bad things is more urgent and should be addressed first - not that one thing was bad and that the other wasn’t, or that only one thing could be addressed.

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                    1 year ago

                    I’m merely reiterating the position of the poster you replied to.

                    You can disagree with that position, but you seemed to be replying to a position that nobody was even taking.