Alice suggests that civilization should spend less on [rolls dice] animal shelters and more on [rolls dice] soup kitchens.
Bob: Yes, I absolutely agree.
Charlie: I don’t think I agree with that policy. I think animal shelters are doing good work, and I wouldn’t want to see them defunded to pursue some other goal.
David: YOU MONSTER HOW CAN YOU SAY CUTE PUPPIES DESERVE TO DIE I HATE YOU AND I HOPE YOUR FAMILY GETS EATEN ALIVE BY COCONUT CRABS.
If your interpretation of ‘nice’ is such that Bob is ‘nice’ and Charlie is ‘not nice’, then being ‘nice’ is not unambiguously good. If defunding animal shelters is bad, someone ought to say that, and a lack of pushback on that issue is a problem.
However, I believe that Scott is counting Charlie as ‘nice’, and only David as ‘not nice’, and I think that’s much more unambiguously correct. A defense attorney should vigorously defend their client against the prosecution. A defense attorney should not begin screaming profanities at the prosecution, try to organize a letter-writing campaign to get them fired, threaten them with a baseball bat, feed them to a crocodile, etc.
I think this is confusing ‘be nice’ with ‘agree’.
Alice suggests that civilization should spend less on [rolls dice] animal shelters and more on [rolls dice] soup kitchens.
Bob: Yes, I absolutely agree.
Charlie: I don’t think I agree with that policy. I think animal shelters are doing good work, and I wouldn’t want to see them defunded to pursue some other goal.
David: YOU MONSTER HOW CAN YOU SAY CUTE PUPPIES DESERVE TO DIE I HATE YOU AND I HOPE YOUR FAMILY GETS EATEN ALIVE BY COCONUT CRABS.
If your interpretation of ‘nice’ is such that Bob is ‘nice’ and Charlie is ‘not nice’, then being ‘nice’ is not unambiguously good. If defunding animal shelters is bad, someone ought to say that, and a lack of pushback on that issue is a problem.
However, I believe that Scott is counting Charlie as ‘nice’, and only David as ‘not nice’, and I think that’s much more unambiguously correct. A defense attorney should vigorously defend their client against the prosecution. A defense attorney should not begin screaming profanities at the prosecution, try to organize a letter-writing campaign to get them fired, threaten them with a baseball bat, feed them to a crocodile, etc.