this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
240 points (99.6% liked)

Canada

11209 readers
763 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A thought experiment:

Suppose, for something to "better" or "worse", it would have to surpass some absolute threshold of "goodness". This would mean "betterness" is no longer transitive with "worseness".

If this were the case, then it's possible for American colonization to still be worse than Danish colonization without Danish colonization being better than American colonization. Neither would meet the requirement for being "better" and as such are incomparable, but both would be meet the requirement of being "worse" and can be compared in that respect.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

OK but that's not how people generally use "better" or "worse." I think transitivity -- and reflexivity -- are generally respected by people's usage of the terms.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s just silly. Would it be better to have someone break one of your arms or two?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Or... two, if you have an Oedipus complex.