When You Do and Do Not Qualify Your Statements
Please pause before reading this blogpost and answer the title's implied questions for yourself. Okay, let's try a concrete metaphor to begin our discussion. Imagine you live immediately adjacent to a field pock-marked with many bare and grassy areas. You do not have a garage or driveway, so you park on the street and your car occasionally is dusty. How often do you wash it? That depends on your personality and on external factors as sifted through your personality. If you are a "car person," you might wash the car often. If you are a "it's just transportation" person, you might wash it rarely or never. But even in the second case, if the car is new, you might be strongly inclined to keep it clean. My example is so simplistic and obvious that you could consider it worthless. Almost anyone would realize that both internal and external factors would affect car-washing. However, I believe that literally everything you think and feel ...