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Re:Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory by slg on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:20AM (#17374636)
>The inverse of "almost no one" is "almost everyone". When you say that "almost no one" reads warnings, you imply the set "almost everyone" is going to encounter problems.

That does not follow logically at all. Just because someone doesn't heed the warning doesn't mean they will fall victim to what they are being warned about. Think of it like jaywalking. "Almost no one" heeds the warnings about the dangers of jaywalking. That does not mean that "almost everyone" would be hit by a car. Someone being mindless of the dangers of an activity does not mean they will automatically succumb to those dangers, but that also doesn't mean that the dangers were not real, serious, and worth protecting against.

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Re:Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory by JackCh on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:57PM (#17375517)
> "That does not follow logically at all."

I never said it follows in a strict mathematical sense, I said it was implied, and implied that it was implied in an informal sense. And I stand by that. By saying that most people don't read warning labels you absolutely meant to suggest that that a very large portion of the population would have trouble with products which require warning labels.

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Re:Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory by slg on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:09PM (#17376031)
You can say I phrased something poorly which implied something I didn't intend. However, you lose all credibility when you get to the point of saying I "absolutely meant to suggest" something. It is frankly insulting that you are pretending to know my intentions better than I do.
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