#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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The Language Does Not Work That Way
When I see your beard and your big calves, my passive intellect. No, you don't get to decide what universals they see. The language does not work that way. It's a special thing. Besides the laboratory. And there's nothing that that dude dictating his pronouns to me can do to interfere with my forming that universal. They've got to go. So if you're going to talk about important things and be honest, not just like rub each other's back, those things form a pretty simple clean cut ideology that everybody has to hear to. There's a lot of room for fighting there. But it's fair fighting. It's fair fighting."
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