“If you don’t count wasted time”? Okay, but likewise, if you don’t count her husband getting shot, Mrs. Lincoln really enjoyed the play...
That’s not likewise.
How so? A bunch of philosophers blowing valuable time on a worthless debate is a major harm, almost as if they were forcibly held in unemployment but drew the same resources from society.
“If you don’t count wasted time”? Okay, but likewise, if you don’t count her husband getting shot, Mrs. Lincoln really enjoyed the play...
That’s not likewise.
How so? A bunch of philosophers blowing valuable time on a worthless debate is a major harm, almost as if they were forcibly held in unemployment but drew the same resources from society.