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Re:How to Talk to Human Beings by shrikant on Friday June 15, 2012 @06:56AM (#4115890)
Also, as long as we're being literal about everything, it would be impossible to kill a child (or anything else..) multiple times.
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Re:How to Talk to Human Beings by Anderkent on Friday June 15, 2012 @07:42AM (#4115992)
The 'multiple times' annotates occurrence of desire, not the subject of desire. He doesn't "want to kill him many times", but many times a day he "wants to kill him".
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