Re:Altruism Isn’t Always Attractive
by kazinator on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:25PM
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I feel you're splitting some sort of grammatical and/or semantic hair there.
Like, for instance, what is the difference between "obesity is unattractive" and "the fat are unnatractive", really.
In "altruism is unattractive", it looks like there is a rhetorical device being used known as metonymy: referring to a subject indirectly by naming an attribute or adjunct of that subject in its place; it in fact means "altruists are unattractive".
Like, for instance, what is the difference between "obesity is unattractive" and "the fat are unnatractive", really.
In "altruism is unattractive", it looks like there is a rhetorical device being used known as metonymy: referring to a subject indirectly by naming an attribute or adjunct of that subject in its place; it in fact means "altruists are unattractive".