mutually exclusive means one cannot be true if the other is true.
One excludes the other and vice versa.
If x then not y.
If y then not x.
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2 things being "separate measures" means they are two different measures about something.
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An example of something that is 2 separate measures that are not mutually exclusive is length and weight. if your scale is 1-10 meters instead of peaceful-violent and your other scale is 1-10 kilos instead of harmless-dangerous they are not mutually exclusive scales as in they can exist at the same time and they are separate messures in that they measure two different things about the same object.
You can have a 1 meter 10 kilo object.
Said object existing doesn't imply a 1 meter 1 kilo object doesn't exist.
We wouldn’t say a person who’s never been a car accident or had a ticket was a good driver if they don’t even have a license- and I wouldn’t call a person selfless who lets you take the last donut simply because they don’t want any donuts. But if a person is so full of “good” they they are basically incapable of intentional “bad”- I surely say they are a “good person”- though that itself is a question- if you didn’t have the choice to be “bad,” are you a “good” person or just a person who isn’t capable of “bad”?
Regardless- I’d say that the proposition is false. You can be a peaceful person WHILE committing brutal violence just the same as you can be a shy person who has to speak to the public. You don’t have to be able to bold to be shy- but you can be both at once. Likewise you can be peaceful and effectively “harmless” all at once. Someone peaceful and not capable of violence... well... everyone is capable of violence- ask any cop or DA or anyone else who has seen what people can and will do. So really that person doesn’t exist. Not being proficient at violence doesn’t mean you can’t be very good at it in the moment.
Of course not being proficient at violence doesn't mean you can't be violent, your just not as efficient in your undertakings of said violence. A baby can be really violent but not accomplish much cause they're a baby, whereas a fully trained Seal can be less violent and yet still cause more harm. But @guest_ is right the proposition is faulty.
Hence you can see why I viewed it as a contradiction
One excludes the other and vice versa.
If x then not y.
If y then not x.
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2 things being "separate measures" means they are two different measures about something.
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An example of something that is 2 separate measures that are not mutually exclusive is length and weight. if your scale is 1-10 meters instead of peaceful-violent and your other scale is 1-10 kilos instead of harmless-dangerous they are not mutually exclusive scales as in they can exist at the same time and they are separate messures in that they measure two different things about the same object.
You can have a 1 meter 10 kilo object.
Said object existing doesn't imply a 1 meter 1 kilo object doesn't exist.
Just not how you phrased it originally.
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I could do fuck-all to a bodybuilder, but I could punt a baby.