Can you call this particular issue a ‘dead horse’ when it hasn’t been a common subject of argument before? (I mean, most of the relevant conversations in human history hadn’t gone past the sophomoric question of whether a copy of you is really you.)
If you’re going to be pessimistic on the prospect of discussion, I think you’d at very least need a new idiom, like “Don’t start beating a stillborn horse”.
If you’re going to be pessimistic on the prospect of discussion, I think you’d at very least need a new idiom, like “Don’t start beating a stillborn horse”.
Can you call this particular issue a ‘dead horse’ when it hasn’t been a common subject of argument before? (I mean, most of the relevant conversations in human history hadn’t gone past the sophomoric question of whether a copy of you is really you.)
If you’re going to be pessimistic on the prospect of discussion, I think you’d at very least need a new idiom, like “Don’t start beating a stillborn horse”.
I like the analogy!