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by notheguyouthink 2962 days ago
> ... This conversation is ENTIRELY about measurements and their margin of error. This conversation is specifically about how the margin of error relates the legal limit.

I disagree. The person I was replying to was indicating that 0.7 should make you feel bad. They were not saying that because your 0.7 might actually be a 0.8, they were saying that because morally you're playing with fire.

Margin of error does not matter in the discussion we were having, of morals vs law. Morals and margin of error are two completely different discussions.

> You then made the erroneous claim that it doesn't matter if the margin of error is applied "before or after" the limit.

How does this matter to morals? I said it doesn't matter before or after, in the context of how it affects the morals of 0.7 being morally incorrect.

This was a moral discussion, ya'll went sideways with it.

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> The person I was replying to was indicating that 0.7 should make you feel bad.

0.7 will make you feel dead, most likely.

Lol, nice catch.