• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    Right? I really dislike the catholic church and am an atheist myself, but these morons make the pope look like a reasonable statesman by comparison.

    • Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Curious how the framing makes something unreasonable become reasonable. Moving the conversation towards the unreasonable.

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        1 month ago

        It doesn’t really; it’s hyperbole by comparison. The distance from my home to the moon is vast and unwalkable, but if you compared it to the distance between the earth and the center of the galaxy, someone might say it looks like a short walk in comparison.

        It obviously still is not possible, but it’s a way to stress how big the comparison is.