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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:03PM (#17771093)
> No, the sentence talks about imaginary pain, not real pain with imaginary causes.

That's exactly what you're getting wrong. "Imaginary pain" does not mean "imagining a situation where imaginary-you is in pain". It means pain with imaginary causes that applies to the real you.

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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by foldr on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:31AM (#17772948)
That's not a possible meaning of "imaginary pain" in my dialect of English.
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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by YuriNiyazov on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:50AM (#17775076)
Seems like the sentence might just be a poor translation from Swedish.
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