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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
So they raised a bunch of money and haven't built anything.
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Maybe a bit off topic to comment on human social communication patterns .. but .. I understand it is common for many people to make this style of deliberately false claim .. What I don't understand , is what is the appeal of doing so ?
Similarly .. In this same kind of style .. when some people know there is a way to do something .. maybe not the way they like .. maybe not an easy way .. but instead they make a deliberately false claim that it is 'impossible' .. when they know that it is possible.
Or they know they can actually do something .. but it's difficult , unpleasant , expensive , etc .. so they instead make a deliberately false claim using absolute language , that they "Can't do it".
It seems kind of similar to over generalizing .. but taken even further .. like there is some inherent appeal to using absolute terms incorrectly for when it is known that it's a non-absolute condition .. like impossible , anything , nothing , ever , never , etc.