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Clementea t1_j0tzh0i wrote

>"attach clear, specific meanings to words,” identifying what the words refer to in reality: Take it literally. Don’t translate it, don’t glamorize it, don’t make the mistake of thinking, as many people do: “Oh, nobody could possibly mean this!” and then proceed to endow it with some whitewashed meaning of your own. Take it straight, for what it does say and mean.

What? I stop reading after this. It's basically saying sarcasm does not exist?...

>!And as someone with OCD I personally say this feels harmful. Sometimes people take words too literally when it wasn't even mean as such and it gives them negative impact. And OCD and GAD gives their sufferer a lot of harmful and false ideas!<

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DirtyOldPanties OP t1_j0uh5gy wrote

I don't think the author means to say sarcasm doesn't exist; but rather that philosophy isn't presented as sarcastic.

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Clementea t1_j0v3bzh wrote

That would contradict itself then since taking it as what it said literally mean sarcasm doesn't exist. As everything is as what it looks like it says without hidden meaning.

Sarcasm literally means you say something but you mean exactly the opposite. If you take it straight for what it does say and means, meaning there is no sarcasm.

>!And once again this is quite harmful for someone who have to live with severe intrusive thought. My anxiety got triggered from reading this.!<

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bildramer t1_j0uctxh wrote

Nothing to do with sarcasm. It means that if you claim to believe something, or if you think someone else believes something, you should start by acting as if it's actually true. Like when people hear "abortion is murder" and somehow end up parsing that as "I hate women" - don't do that. Or when people claim to think "abortion is murder" and yet don't act like millions of children are being murdered, but act as if it's a minor inconvenience to be settled with ballots.

As the title said: take ideas seriously. Don't use them as attire or status markers, to identify which political group you're in, or for fun philosophical discussions you ignore in real life. Did you know 2/3rds of self-described vegetarians claim to have eaten meat in the last 24 hours?

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