That is a delightfully awful question. The more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that there’s no hope of an accurate answer if you include the presupposition that the person being asked is actually somewhat mindkilled.
I’m not sure. At least twice before I’ve gotten that question or a variant of it thrown to me and it helped strongly reevaluate my attitude on the issue in question. Possibly I’m generalizing from one example too much?
Actually, I was probably being too literal about the question because the logical paradox struck me as funny.
I will blame an ambiguity which I think is built into English. “How mindkilled are you?” can imply that you’re mindkilled in some sense which is stable over a period of time, or it can imply that you were mindkilled recently but have a capacity to come out of it.
That is a delightfully awful question. The more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that there’s no hope of an accurate answer if you include the presupposition that the person being asked is actually somewhat mindkilled.
I’m not sure. At least twice before I’ve gotten that question or a variant of it thrown to me and it helped strongly reevaluate my attitude on the issue in question. Possibly I’m generalizing from one example too much?
Actually, I was probably being too literal about the question because the logical paradox struck me as funny.
I will blame an ambiguity which I think is built into English. “How mindkilled are you?” can imply that you’re mindkilled in some sense which is stable over a period of time, or it can imply that you were mindkilled recently but have a capacity to come out of it.