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Donald Ian Rankin

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6. Once again, you're confusing a comparative with an absolute.

Reply to n2doc (Reply #5)

Tue May 13, 2014, 06:54 PM

May 2014

It's possible that by "they are all important" you mean "they are all equally important" - which would be relevant, but I think would be wrong. But I think you are trying to present "all elections are very important" as a refutation of "other elections were more important than this election", in which case your claim is true, but irrelevant.

How important or otherwise elections are is nothing whatsoever to do with whether one election is more or less important than another.

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What a load of crap:"The 2014 Election Is the Least Important in Years" [View all] n2doc May 2014 OP

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Once again, you're confusing a comparative with an absolute. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #6

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