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I'm sorry, but "calling out apparent injustice" is not comparable to "literally throwing the first rock to stone someone to death".

That quote gets bent very far out of context. You could use it to justify any inaction under that interpretation, on the theory that you are not qualified to take it simply due to being imperfect.

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> rock to stone someone to death

Not sure where you get this from?

For me it means even "evil" people/countries can raise valid points, nothing more, nothing less.

That phrase originated from a story in which a lapsed carpenter stopped an execution.

Christ, we need more woodworking classes for kids on the tech path.

Right, but you do realize that sentences can mean more than just the literal meaning it historically had?

Christ, we really need reading comprehension classes and ideally poetry classes or something similar, since people are unable to read more than the actual characters today it seems... Seems extra problematic in software/programming circles, maybe we need to add arts classes to science programs too?

If you wanted to reference the saying about people living in glass houses throwing stones, you should have referenced that one rather than a different quote about stones. They're not equivalent.

> If you wanted to reference the saying about people living in glass houses throwing stones

Well, I didn't, I referenced exactly what I wanted to reference. It's OK to go back into the cave now.

In fact they are referencing the phrase, of much later origin, "those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".

embedding-shape is quoting Jesus, who was in fact literally referring to killing people by throwing stones. (And, in fact, was talking to a mob that was literally about to do exactly that.)

I'm thoroughly familiar with Jesus's words. By "they" I was referring to demarq, who I believe embedding-shape was misinterpreting.

Ah, I see.

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