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  • grue@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    If I tell you “go jump in a lake,” did I “freely volunteer” you to jump in the lake? Was that “a choice [I] get to make for” you? Did I somehow compel you to jump in the lake? Do you need a towel now because of the inexorable magic voodoo power of my Internet comment?

    Please, O Wise and Powerful Reading Comprehension Expert, explain to me how exhorting somebody to do something and “volunteering them” or “making the choice for them” to do it are equivalent!