re: #16 Charleston Chew

The word “feel” should be deleted. It should read “all people wronged” because that limits the grievances to ones that are real. It’s possible to feel wronged without actually being wronged. It’s possible to be wrong about being wronged.

In 1980, Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon because he felt Lennon had wronged him. He hadn’t. Discerning the difference between one’s feelings and reality is an important part of being sane and thus an important part of political rhetoric.

Um. That’s my point. You for some reason see it as important, but it’s really not, as far as it’s this particular declaration is concerned. It’s not some law or constitution, where every jot and tittle is of paramount importance. So I see it as nothing but nitpicking, and thus hyperliteralism.

Assuming that “corporate forces of the world” does or does not mean “all corporations” is just two sides of the same coin. Both assumptions are equally valid or invalid. That’s the problem with a lack of specificity.

Then saying that the declaration is too vague is quite sufficient in my humble opinion, so stopping at 2a is an option. Driving the point home for the next x items? That’s what I don’t get.

My default interpretation is to assume it means what it actually says. I consider that a prudent default position for interpreting anything.

Uh, no. This literalism is a prudent default position for interpreting mathematical statements or legal contracts. It doesn’t necessarily work with texts like the above.