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by throwaway2048 4463 days ago
Plenty of things that are inconsequential in the small scale are huge problems in the large scale.

I don't think anything is particularly arbitrary or contradictory about that idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

Just because there is no sharp division between two states, doesn't mean they don't exist to begin with.

Quantity has a quality all its own