Todd Archer wrote:
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> Justin said:
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> >"everyone does it" is a poor excuse.
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> I'm not excusing it. I'm explaining it.
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Establishing that "everyone" does "it" would be neither an excuse nor an explanation but a provisional labelling of what it is that _needs_ to be explained. (This is a favorite litany of mine, derived from the reading of _Poverty of Philosophy_, _Grundrisse_, and several of the books of Ellen Meiksins Wood.)
Carrol