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  • tatetoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldSad but true
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    14 days ago

    there are certainly situations where you can do everything as safely as possible but an accident still occurs.

    Then it won’t be your fault.

    In (almost) every automobile “accident” someone was at fault. That person bears responsibility for whatever results from the “accident.”









  • “Billionaires are literally cancer” is false specifically because “literally” does not mean “figuratively”.

    Correct. But that is not what OP said. Read it again and I think you will see that OP is saying that “Billionaires are cancer” is not a figurative statement at all, but a literal one. You can disagree with them (I do, btw), but they have not misused the word “literally.”


  • “Billionaires are literally cancer” is simply a false statement, unless “literally” was used, incorrectly, as hyperbole.

    That is my point. Literally can be used correctly in a statement that is not correct, and my reading of the original post is that was OP’s intention. They did not misuse the word “literally.”

    I’m not debating the meaning of the word cancer.