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Re:Giving the middle finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian... by kwhitefoot on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:11PM (#35098457)
If @ggambetta believes that there are people with influence in society who take the idiom literally then it would be reasonable for @ggambetta to be concerned and to have a problem with the idiom.

Perhaps the judge could have used a more precise legal formula to avoid just this kind of concern.

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Re:Giving the middle finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian... by josefx on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:44PM (#35099811)
> If @ggambetta believes that there are people with influence in society who take the idiom literally then it would be reasonable for @ggambetta to be concerned and to have a problem with the idiom.

Can't the same be said for people who believe the world is flat? After all they believe it, so their concern about the round world conspiracy has to be reasonable, right?

I think there might be a tiny gap in your reasoning.

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Re:Giving the middle finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian... by kwhitefoot on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:31PM (#35101372)
The flat earthers don't use their beliefs as a means to force their world view on the rest of us, plenty of god botherers do.
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