There are cases where it does hold. Trivially, if the wrongs are vastly out of proportion, someone is overreacting. For example, if you’re fixated on your phone, don’t look where you’re going and bump into me, that’s a mild wrong. If I respond by slapping the phone out of your hands and stomping on it, I’ve caused way more damage to you in retaliation.

But in the case at hand, I’m with you: An obnoxious statement designed to invalidate someone’s complaint countered by another obnoxious statement designed to invalidate the previous one, thus defending the original complaint, is perfectly acceptable. The point isn’t just obnoxion, but a counterargument.

So the physician cares about patient wellbeing while the newspaper cares about engagement? Sounds about right

Don’t you fucking call me out like that, dammit

AFAIK there is no proof that this paradox was actually coined by Epicurus, despite later being attributed to him. Epicurean philosophy holds that the gods exist, but don’t interfere with anything, so it’s pointless to fear or appease them.

Hence, it would be a later invention attributed to him.

Just dump it in ~

I use CalVer in my projects. I might transition to SemVer some time, but given that most of my projects are standalone, it doesn’t make much sense to track external compatibility.

Pride Versioning makes no sense, because In never quite proud enough of my work to distinguish it from 0ver.