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Cycling in the time of Corona

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    And PHE and the government have decided that preventing exercise(with social distancing) would be deleterious to the mental and physical health of citizens to an extent that outweighs the risk of people staying at home 24/7.

    Oh, I agree. I'm just always sceptical about statements starting 'It's clear that...' without explaining why it's clear. That's why I always found philosophy to be such a difficult subject, as you'd get long works starting from assumptions which were claimed to be 'self-evident' when I wasn't at all sure that they were.

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    One of the first things my phd supervisor taught me was to treat words like “obviously” “clearly” etc as flags for unsubstantiated waffle when reviewing academic papers, or marking student essays. Works pretty well as a rule of thumb :-)

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    Yep, same applies for barristering. If someone says something is obvious, it means there's no authority in support of the proposition they're relying on, and they're just winging it. Cue alarm bells.

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