Re:The American prison system’s war on reading
by joshuamorton on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:06PM
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I think you're taking a particularly uncharitable reading of GPs "so what". I read it precisely as asking the other person to make the value tradeoff argument.
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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading
by kbenson on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:56PM
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Perhaps, but Merriam-Webster defines the idiom as meaning "should not be found objectionable", which squares with how I interpreted it. You're right that it's possible it wasn't meant that way though.