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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by avmich on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:49PM (#25861715)
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by carlmr on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:55PM (#25861811)
More perfect implies imperfection, just less of it.
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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by mcguire on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:04PM (#25863508)
You hit where you aim.
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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by carlmr on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:31PM (#25866147)
At long enough distance you might even want to aim higher than the target.
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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by valbaca on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:06PM (#25861953)
more perfect does not imply 'perfect' is the goal nor should it be.

"More perfect" in this context is effectively "better."

Perfectionism, ironically, stunts improvements.

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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by avmich on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:45PM (#25863224)
To other answers here: the phrase in the poem "we're not trying to be perfect" seems contradicting the goal "to form a more perfect Union", unless you think that "let's be perfect" and "less be more perfect" are different enough. I think the road to perfection shares parts with the road to more perfection - often.
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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by WorldMaker on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:38PM (#25862300)
I think that it is intentional to underscore that "more perfect" != "perfect". The founders that wrote that document did not believe the Constitution was perfect, they knew it a part of process towards perfect, while it might imply perfect is an end goal it also doesn't necessarily say that.
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