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Are for the weak?
Yes 33%  33%  [ 2 ]
No 67%  67%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 6

Cyanide
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03 Feb 2007, 1:57 am

I say "yes."



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03 Feb 2007, 2:46 am

Depends on what you say vices are, and it depends on what view of weakness is taken, etc etc. In other words before I can say or do anything, I will have to have ample information to act upon.



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03 Feb 2007, 2:57 am

???



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03 Feb 2007, 9:38 am

are vices not largely social constructs, making them therefore largely subjective?


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03 Feb 2007, 11:04 am

I voted yes, but I think I might have reacted a bit too promptly. Weak has many different precisemeanings (link).



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03 Feb 2007, 12:59 pm

peebo wrote:
are vices not largely social constructs, making them therefore largely subjective?

Right. Not only that but I am not sure what the OP wants us to think by calling these people weak. I mean, some of these people have some forms of strength, especially given that our vices today were not considered so by past peoples.