• @unfreeradical
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    11 year ago

    It was a strawman, or if you prefer, a bogeyman.

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        1 year ago

        Your point is that if you needed surgery, then you would want it performed other than by a cook with a dirty spatula.

        Your point is meaningless.

        No one suggested that someone performing surgery would not be properly trained.

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          11 year ago

          That wasn’t my point because i didn’t say that. I was explaining that the person who did was only describing how having more or less skill is true using that scenario.

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            01 year ago

            Skill is not a quantity.

            You identified as a quantity duration of time invested training.

            You conflated an item with one of its attributes.

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              You can have a quantity of skill.

              Skill is not a requirement for justice, nor is it something that should be denied from workers.

              • @unfreeradical
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                01 year ago

                Skill is not a quantity, nor is it quantifiable, and your further objection embodies a straw man attack.

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                    11 year ago

                    Does an apprentice in a trade have more skill or less in his trade than a master in another trade?

                    Again, skills differ qualitatively.

                    At best one may conceive as a quantity a particular kind of skill, but not skill generally.