Hmm… Maybe the translation affects the meaning indeed.

To clarify, McMahon was visiting a city crippled by flood and didn’t find anything better to say than “so much water!”. The follow up by the French official was “And there’s more, you’ve only seen the top of it!”, meaning the surface of the water (implying “beneath the surface, there’s even more water, Mr. President, you’d be surprised!”).

It’s my understanding that the official was somehow trolling McMahon for his… mmh… stupid comment.

Is it better this way?

Regulating capitalism = authoritarianism. What a weird take. Regulating capitalism =/= abolishing capitalism, this I can understand. But your take… wow.

Possible case : me. I often forget my seat belt. Fortunately, most people remind me about it and then I immediately fasten it.

The reason is simple. I think I use a car, always as a passenger, like 3 times a year. When I used to drive, it was such an automatic gesture I’d never forget it. But it’s so easy to forget when it becomes very rare. Everything is hypnotizing when you enter a car. I’m glad the driver reminds me, but I could be OP’s lost one.

Thanks for sharing, I like this one!

That’s very true, yes. And non-inherent hardly means “weak” or “inefficient”.

Indeed, I do think the same. What I have trouble understanding, and even with close friends, is how “no inherent meaning to existence” seems to quickly become, in some cases, “no meaning to existence”. I always tend to think this slide tends to exclude another possibility. A non-inherent meaning.

Why not neither?

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