Bro, the reason the school calls them “volunteer hours” is because the places that need help are asking for volunteers. Even though it’s mandatory for students, these are hours at a volunteering opportunity. Interacting with the community is part of growing up, and part of their education. It’s not slavery.
It quite literally is. All encoding of information is definitionally contextual, language (formal or not) is no exception. This doesn’t change because the language is spoken.
you aren’t strictly forced to go to school, it’s your parents who will suffer the consequences for you not going, but yes forcing kids to go to school when they clearly don’t want to is an extremely shitty thing and leads to lots of issues.
maybe if you did yours you’d understand that “and” means both conditions need to be fulfilled for a statement to be true. so how is that child considered a property of anyone in this situation?
the definition part of the definition is the paragraph next to “1.” the bullet points below it are examples of how it applies. you provided that definition, are you telling me that on top of not understanding the meaning of “and” you also failed to understand the formatting itself?
i’m really not enraged, not even close to that. i’m calmly bewildered by your far-reaching thought process
it’s you who picked a hypertechnicality (“property of their parents” who btw. aren’t the ones making the kid do work here? it’s the school doing that, in case you forgot) to be mad about
But he keeps going. Freely. So it is volunteering now. The first 15 hours was not volunteering by definition, but it is afterwards.
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Talk about absolutism. You didn’t address this, and you didn’t read my comment. I’m done.
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Bro, the reason the school calls them “volunteer hours” is because the places that need help are asking for volunteers. Even though it’s mandatory for students, these are hours at a volunteering opportunity. Interacting with the community is part of growing up, and part of their education. It’s not slavery.
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They do change contextually, though? That’s sorta the whole basis of language.
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It quite literally is. All encoding of information is definitionally contextual, language (formal or not) is no exception. This doesn’t change because the language is spoken.
By this logic isn’t school just slavery?
you aren’t strictly forced to go to school, it’s your parents who will suffer the consequences for you not going, but yes forcing kids to go to school when they clearly don’t want to is an extremely shitty thing and leads to lots of issues.
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Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.
do you think homework is slavery too?
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maybe if you did yours you’d understand that “and” means both conditions need to be fulfilled for a statement to be true. so how is that child considered a property of anyone in this situation?
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the definition part of the definition is the paragraph next to “1.” the bullet points below it are examples of how it applies. you provided that definition, are you telling me that on top of not understanding the meaning of “and” you also failed to understand the formatting itself?
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i’m really not enraged, not even close to that. i’m calmly bewildered by your far-reaching thought process
it’s you who picked a hypertechnicality (“property of their parents” who btw. aren’t the ones making the kid do work here? it’s the school doing that, in case you forgot) to be mad about
They are using volunteer to imply that the work cannot be payed