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minus-square@unfreeradical@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIt was a strawman, or if you prefer, a bogeyman.
minus-square@slackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•1 year agoIt’s not a strawman just because you miss the point so entirely.
minus-square@unfreeradical@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoYour 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.
minus-square@slackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•1 year agoThat 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.
minus-square@unfreeradical@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoSkill is not a quantity. You identified as a quantity duration of time invested training. You conflated an item with one of its attributes.
minus-square@slackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•edit-21 year agoYou can have a quantity of skill. Skill is not a requirement for justice, nor is it something that should be denied from workers.
minus-square@unfreeradical@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoSkill is not a quantity, nor is it quantifiable, and your further objection embodies a straw man attack.
minus-square@slackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•1 year agoApprentice, tradesman, journeyman, master.
minus-square@unfreeradical@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoDoes 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.
It was a strawman, or if you prefer, a bogeyman.
It’s not a strawman just because you miss the point so entirely.
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.
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.
Skill is not a quantity.
You identified as a quantity duration of time invested training.
You conflated an item with one of its attributes.
You can have a quantity of skill.
Skill is not a requirement for justice, nor is it something that should be denied from workers.
Skill is not a quantity, nor is it quantifiable, and your further objection embodies a straw man attack.
Apprentice, tradesman, journeyman, master.
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.