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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:19 AM
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6. Instead of showing that you understand the different meanings...
...of "materialism" in different contexts, you just heaped on more talk of bad, bad, bad materialism, in a way that seems to say you either don't understand or don't care to consider any differences in meaning.

Yes or no: Do you understand that, say, the kind of materialism that explains the human mind as a biochemical phenomenon has nothing to do with the kind of materialism that means wanting to acquire yachts and gold-plated dog dishes and a fifth summer home?

Or perhaps you're gratuitously blurring the differences, trying to suggest that one leads to the other, and that people have to go all mystical lest they plunder the planet and exploit the working class?
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